About This Item

  • Call NumberTRAN_0306
  • TitleSubway flooded out
  • SummaryCaption: "Subway flooded out--George Fillroth of 6732 5th Ave., a structural maintenance employee of the Board of Transportation, wades through water over tracks at 86th St. station on 4th Ave. subway to hunt for clogged drain while Robert Hedstrom of 743 68th St., foreman, steadies him. ..."
  • Date1951
  • 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: Oct. 8, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; "Photo by Harold Nisnoff.". Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorNisnoff, Harold J.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFloods -- New York (State) -- New York ; Subways -- 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: Subways: Floods