About This Item
- Title[Fire in downtown Brooklyn]
- Call NumberGOVT_0064
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryAerial view of fire fighters amid heavy smoke on roof of five-story abandoned building; sign on first floor of building reads, "Tech Book Exchange"; crowd watching from sidewalk at lower left; excavation for building site, probably as part of reconstruction of Brooklyn civic center, in foreground.
- Date1953
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
- Genreaerial viewsgelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On verso: date stamped: Jun. 2, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp.
- CreatorBrooklyn eagle
- SubjectFires -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fire fighters -- New York (State) -- New York ; Building construction -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm]
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Downtown 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.