About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0522
  • TitleFelled by blaze
  • SummaryFireman on stretcher being lifted into ambulance amid crowd of colleagues and onlookers. Caption: "Felled by blaze: One of the 21 firemen felled in Red Hook warehouse blaze and explosion is carried from the scene."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Jan. 15, 1954; "Eagle photo by Fox"; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorFox, Dan
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFire fighters -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fires -- Casualties -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceRed Hook (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: 1954. I