About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0427
  • TitleShocked and burned out
  • SummaryFamily group standing amid debris of apartment ravaged by fire. Caption: "Shocked and burned out: Betty, 19, comforts her mother, Anna DeCrescenzo, 41, as her stepfather, Joseph DeCrescenzo, 33, holding Carmine, 7, and their two other children, Jo Ann, 9, and Joseph Jr., 4, watch sadly. Carmine lost his shoes in a fire, which gutted their home at 351 Van Brunt St., early yesterday."
  • Date1952
  • 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: Feb. 1, 1952; "Eagle staff photo by Kruh." Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorKruh, Johnny
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFires -- New York (State) -- New York ; Disaster victims -- New York (State) -- New York ; Families -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceRed Hook (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