About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0875
  • TitleFire at Linden Boulevard and Bedford Avenue
  • SummaryAerial view: several apartment buildings, three fire trucks, one parked automobile, several pedestrians and spectators, and three trees. Caption: "Detectives from both police headquarters and the offices of the District Attorney are now investigating the origin of the four-alarm fire in the apartment house at Linden Boulevard and Bedford Ave. where seven persons were injured yesterday. ... Arrow points to Flatbush Democratic Club, imperilled by flames."
  • Date1937
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 9 x 14 in.
  • Genreaerial viewsgelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn recto: large black arrow pointing down in upper right. On verso: date inscribed: June 8/37. Retouched. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
  • SubjectApartment houses ; Fires ; Spectators [lctgm]
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Flatbush (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • 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.
  • FolderFolder: Flatbush: Neighborhoods