About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0431
  • TitleHot work on hot day
  • SummaryGroup of firemen dousing taxicab on street; hood of cab open; cab driver standing at right with two firemen. Caption: "Hot work on hot day: These Brooklyn firemen not only had the weather with which to contend, but they had to battle a blaze in a cab on Fulton St. at Cadman Plaza."
  • Date1952
  • 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: Jun. 18, 1952; photographer's stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorKruh, Johnny
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFires -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fire fighters -- New York (State) -- New York ; Taxicabs -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (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