About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0501
  • TitleQuarter of a million blaze
  • SummaryView of collapsed roof of burning warehouse; train yard and other industrial buildings in background. Caption: "Quarter of a million blaze: Firemen fought for an hour and 20 minutes to save this one-story warehouse, 187 Gardner Ave., but the five-alarm blaze destroyed the building and contents with damages estimated at $250,000."
  • Date1953
  • 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: Oct. 31, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorLambert, Al
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFires -- New York (State) -- New York ; Ruined buildings -- New York (State) -- New York ; Roofs -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Bushwick (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