About This Item

  • Title[American Can Co. fire-fighting brigade]
  • Call NumberWORK_0180
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (WORK 0178), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two views in different sizes. Caption (0180): "Members of specially-trained fire-fighting brigade at Canco [American Can Company] plant practice unreeling of big hose connected with central water supply system. Complete emergency forces to handle any contingency have been recruited from employees of plant at 2d Ave. and 42d St. ..."
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • Note0180: grease pencil cropping marks. On verso date stamped: Mar. 4, 1951. Retouched. Title from caption on verso of 0180; supplied partially by cataloger.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFactories -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fire fighters -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Sunset Park (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.