About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0544
  • TitleFire-fighters in action
  • SummaryFiremen climbing up ladder to fourth-floor window of burning building; policemen looking up in foreground. Caption: "Fire-fighters in action: Considerable damage was caused to the Bridge Bindery Corporation at 258 Navy St. by this two-alarm fire which broke out at 9 a.m. today and raged for 45 minutes. Fifty firemen fought the blaze."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Sep. 10, 1954; "Eagle photo by Geller"; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorGeller, Jules
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectNew York Naval Shipyard ; Fires -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fire fighters -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (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: 1954. II