About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0438
  • TitleOff-shore fire fighters
  • SummaryCaption: "Off-shore fire-fighters: Fireboat pours tons of water on blazing Pier 9, foot of Montague St., at very moment when walls of superstructure collapse into East River. In background, lights blink in office windows of Manhattan skyscrapers."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 11 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Sep. 30, 1952; "Eagle staff photo by Fox." Retouched.
  • CreatorFox, Dan
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFires -- New York (State) -- New York ; Piers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fireboats -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn 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: 1952