About This Item
- TitleFiremen in action
- Call NumberWORK_0404
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummarySmoke billowing from ornate, nineteenth-century building, with seven or eight firemen and observers watching from field below; firemen in middle directing stream of water towards roof. Caption: "Firemen in action: Fire fighters send streams of water at blazing building at 1435 Atlantic Ave., formerly occupied by Orphan Asylum of City of Brooklyn."
- Date1946
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Oct. 19, 1946; "Eagle Staff photo." Grease pencil cropping marks.
- CreatorBrooklyn eagle
- Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
- SubjectFires -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fire fighters -- New York (State) -- New York ; Orphanages -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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.