About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0421
  • TitleBattle blaze from El
  • SummarySix or seven firemen on elevated subway tracks directing streams of water to burning building level with them; other firemen around raised ladder and fire truck in foregound. Caption: "Battle blaze from El: Firemen perched atop BMT West End Line el structure pour water into blazing building at New Utrecht Ave. and 46th St. Service was halted for nearly four hours while fire in abandoned movie house was being quenched."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Apr. 24, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFires -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fire fighters -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fire engines -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)New Utrecht (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • FolderFolder: Fires: 1952