About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0521
  • TitleBattling waterfront blaze
  • SummaryThick smoke billowing from warehouses; pedestrians watching from snow-covered pier at left; fireboat and other moored vessels at left. Caption: "Battling waterfront blaze: From fireboats and ashore, firemen struggle with $3,000,000 blaze roaring through four warehouses on Red Hook waterfront at Atlantic Basin. Fifteen firemen suffered injuries in explosion which ripped out thick wall of one building...."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Jan. 15, 1954; "Eagle photo by Kruh"; Brooklyn Eagle stamp.
  • CreatorKruh, Johnny
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFires -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fireboats -- New York (State) -- New York ; Harbors -- 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