About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0552
  • TitleFive-alarmer in Canarsie
  • SummaryCrowd gathered in dirt lot of abandoned cars watching fire in background; firemen and firetruck at left. Caption: "Five-alarmer in Canarsie: Flames and smoke pour from raging blaze which roared through big junkyard filled with thousands of old tires at Powell Rubber Company, Foster Ave. near E. 57th St., yesterday...."
  • Date1955
  • 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. 21, 1955; photographer's stamp; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorMurray, Jack
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFires -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fire fighters -- New York (State) -- New York ; Automobile graveyards -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceCanarsie (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: 1955