About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_1431
  • TitleMontague Hotel
  • SummaryCaption: "Augustus F. Toohil, manager of Montague Hotel, 103 Montague St., [in Brooklyn Heights] gets Supreme Court Justice Charles E. Murphy's order to have hotel vacated as a fire menace from Deputy Fire Chief Edward M. F. Conway, right, while Acting Deputy Chief Harold G. Roeder looks on. Later order was vacated as i̕mprovident' by Supreme Court Justice Joseph Fennelly."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Jun[e] 24, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorFox, Dan
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFire chiefs -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hotels -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • 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: Hotels: Montague