About This Item
- Call NumberWORK_0508
- TitleRed hot time in Coney Island
- SummaryNight view of three firemen standing with hose amid ruined buildings and charred timber; building at left with sign reading "Rifle Range." Caption: "Red hot time in Coney Island: Firemen wet down smoking ruins in heart of Coney Island's amusement area at Surf Ave. and W. 8th St. Four-alarm blaze late yesterday swept through four buildings slated to come down soon to make way for new city aquarium."
- Date1954
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 7 x 9 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsnight photographyphotographic prints
- NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Oct. 15, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; United Press Association stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
- CreatorUnited Press Associations
- Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
- SubjectFires -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fire fighters -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Coney Island (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. I