About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0514
  • TitleFive-alarmer on Brooklyn waterfront
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (WORK 0515), some of which may also be described in this new record; Identical images of two firetrucks on slushy, snowy street, with firemen directing water into smoking building at right; other firemen, police, and pedestrians amid tangle of hoses in foreground. Caption: "Five-alarmer on Brooklyn waterfront: Firemen battle the five-alarm fire ripping through a block-long Brooklyn warehouse on the Erie Basin waterfront Jan. 15. Fifteen firemen were trapped briefly and rescued by other firefighters during the blaze...."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white ; 9 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Jan. 19, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; United Press Photo stamp.
  • CreatorUnited Press Associations
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFires -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fire fighters -- 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: 1954. I