About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_1912
  • TitleGerritsen Beach fire volunteers
  • SummaryCaption: "Gerritsen Beach fire volunteers mournfully survey their stripped truck after city firemen Wednesday took back hose and other apparatus lent to the vamps for the past ten years. Chief Harry Bloodgood, Jr. holds one of the two nozzles left by the city department. Others standing, left to right, are Lt. Charles Woods, Capt. Harry Bloodgood, Sr., St. Charles Hodgetts and Deputy Chief Alfred Turner."
  • Date1934
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date inscribed: June 29/34. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
  • SubjectFire engines -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fire fighters -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Gerritsen Beach (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: Gerritsen Beach: Volunteer Fire Department