About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0434
  • TitleFiery stairwell
  • SummaryThree firemen with hoses and pikes standing on blackened stairway in severely damaged apartment. Caption: "Fiery stairwell: Firemen give final dousing to stairs of rooming house at 71 Lefferts Place, where two died in blaze that swept up stairwell...."
  • 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: Nov. 17, 1952; "Eagle staff photo by Fox." Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorFox, Dan
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFires -- New York (State) -- New York ; Ruined buildings -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fire fighters -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Clinton Hill Historic District (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