About This Item


  • Call NumberWORK_0393
  • TitleDouble-checking frantic phoners.
  • SummaryMan operating a switchboard. Newspaper clipping pasted to back of photograph from article, stamped: April 26, 1953, reading: Double-checking frantic phoners ... Inscription in pencil reads: "All telephone alarms of fire are taken on tape recorder in case person phoning in is too excited or is forced to hang up. Dispatcher Joe Gaynor receiving call and switching on tape recorder. Double check. Fire Department Brooklyn's Fire Alarm Central Office."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white
  • Genreblack-and-white photographs
  • CreatorUnknown
  • SubjectFire departments
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • 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: Fire department: Fire Alarm Central Office