About This Item


  • TitleFire fighting under difficulties
  • Call NumberWORK_0407
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryFive firemen on fire escape near top of building with flames shooting from windows; two ladders propped against building. Caption: "Fire fighting under difficulites: Tongues of flame, following small explosion, shoot out at firemen fighting warehouse blaze at 220 Kosciusko St., temporarily sending them scurrying down ladders."
  • Date1951
  • 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. 20, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle stamp.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFires -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fire fighters -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fire escapes -- 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.