About This Item
- TitleCivic Center blaze
- Call NumberWORK_0543
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryNight view of firemen climbing up fire escape of smoking, two-story brick building; storefront signs on ground floor. Caption: "Civic Center blaze: Firemen scurry up shell of abandoned building on Myrtle Ave. near Fulton St., where two-alarm fire broke out....The buildings have been condemned to make way for new Civic Center."
- Date1954
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsnight photographyphotographic prints
- NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Aug. 30, 1954; photographer's stamp; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
- CreatorMurray, Jack
- 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.)Brooklyn Heights (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.