About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0424
  • TitleSearch for clues
  • SummaryTwo firemen with pikes probing wreckage in ruined kitchen. Caption: "Search for clues: Firemen inspect oil stove in first-floor apartment at 31 Brooklyn Ave. that reportedly started fire when it became overheated and exploded. Two persons were killed and nine injured, two critically."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Dec. 15, 1952; "Eagle staff photos by Fox." Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorFox, Dan
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFires -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fire fighters -- 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: Fires: 1952