About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0549
  • TitleThis spark was out
  • SummaryTwo firemen crouching over body of prone man partially covered with blanket. Caption: "This spark was out: Firemen try to revive unidentified man found in blazing building at 659 Atlantic Ave., in Fort Greene market last night. He died of smoke poisoning despite efforts to revive him."
  • 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: Nov. 10, 1954; photographer's stamp; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorMurray, Jack
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectDisaster victims -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fire fighters -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Fort Greene (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. II