About This Item


  • Call NumberWORK_0405
  • TitleBattling flames
  • SummaryFiremen directing streams of water at Brooklyn Orphan Asylum, an ornate, nineteenth-century building with collapsed roof; two firemen directing water from fire truck in center of composition; fire hoses and debris in foreground. Caption: "Battling flames: Firemen fight four-alarm blaze that gutted vacant orphanage at Kingston Ave. and Herkimer St. yesterday...."
  • Date1946
  • 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: Oct. 20, 1946; "Eagle Staff photo." Retouched.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBrooklyn Orphan Asylum (New York, N.Y.) ; Fires -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fire fighters -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fire engines -- New York (State) -- New York ; Orphanages -- New York (State) -- New York ; Ruined buildings -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Crown Heights (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: 1900-1950