About This Item
- Call NumberWORK_0481
- TitleBrooklyn brush fire
- SummaryAerial view of street with smoke pouring from roof of damaged factory buildings; fireman stepping onto roof from ladder at right; other firemen and observers standing on street amid tangle of hoses, debris, automobiles, and firetrucks. Caption: "Brooklyn brush fire: New York: Burning brushes and brooms litter the street, complicating the job of fireman and rescue workers at the site of a three-alarm brush factory fire on Glenmore Street [i.e., Avenue] in Brooklyn . . . ."
- Date1953
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 7 x 9 in.
- Genreaerial viewsgelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteTitle from typed caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: 12/28/53; United Press Association stamp.
- CreatorUnited Press Associations
- SubjectFires -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fire fighters -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)East New York (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: 1953