About This Item
- TitleBurned to the ground
- Call NumberWORK_0493
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryMan, woman, and children standing amid embers of burned houses; two neighbors watch from yard of intact house in background. Caption: "Burned to the ground: Mill Basin families help search charred wreckage of two homes that burned to ground in early morning blaze. . . ."
- Date1953
- 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: Jun. 27, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
- CreatorMcNamara, C. E.
- Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
- SubjectFires -- New York (State) -- New York ; Disaster victims -- New York (State) -- New York ; Ruined buildings -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Mill Basin (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.