About This Item

  • Title"Hot" truck
  • Call NumberWORK_0553
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryTwo trucks in lot, one on right in flames. Caption: "'Hot' truck: Flames gut truck parked in gas station at 5714 Clarendon Road. Fire, believed started when spark ignited fumes from flooded carburetor, was kept from spreading to other truck and station...."
  • Date1955
  • 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: Jan. 26, 1955; "Eagle photo by Jack Murray"; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorMurray, Jack
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFires -- New York (State) -- New York ; Trucks -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Flatbush (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.