About This Item
- Title$500,000 blaze
- Call NumberWORK_0537
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (WORK 0534, WORK 0535, WORK 0536, WORK 0538, WORK 0539, WORK 0540), some of which may also be described in this new record; Sequence of photos, some blurry, showing firemen putting out fire in five-story masonry building. Caption: "$500,000 blaze: Flames roar through big warehouse at Kent Ave. and S. 6th St., close to Williamsburg Bridge. Almost 200 firemen battled blaze three hours. Extra engines were called in from Manhattan. Fireboats, Coast Guard and water towers helped fight fire."
- Date1954
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description7 photographic prints : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteTitle from caption on verso of 0540. On verso of 0540: date stamped: Jul. 16; 1954; photographer's stamp; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. 0536: 8 x 10 in. Grease pencil cropping marks on 0540.
- CreatorSchultze Studio
- 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.)Williamsburg (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.