About This Item

  • Call NumberSCHL_0197
  • TitleBoys watching fire
  • SummaryYoung men, presumably students watching a fire in the Administration Building at 99 Livingston Street, standing in open windows of top two floors of Polytechnic Institute's South Building [from sign on image] at 94 Livingston Street in Downtown Brooklyn.
  • Date1938
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: "Boys watching fire in main bldg." On verso: date inscribed: 1938. Title from inscription on verso.
  • SubjectPolytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Downtown Brooklyn (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: Schools: Adult: Polytechnic Institute: Buildings