About This Item
- TitleBurned up and smashed down
- Call NumberWORK_0531
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (WORK 0530, WORK 0547, WORK 0529), some of which may also be described in this new record; Sequence of photos showing demolition of fire-damaged building in Brooklyn Heights. Caption: "Burned up and smashed down: Wreckers move in on ancient Arbuckle Building, gutted by roaring, fire-alarm fire, to complete the destruction. Big crane with one-ton steel ball smashed shell of abandoned building to rubble in an hour while smoke still poured from flames in basement of the building at 367 Fulton St. Fireproof Fulton Savings Bank, at right, was unharmed as were Borough Hall and other nearby structures...."
- Date1954
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description4 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 8 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Nov. 4, 1954; "Eagle photos by Jules Geller." 0547: 8 x 10 in.; without captions.
- CreatorGeller, Jules
- Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
- SubjectFires -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fire fighters -- New York (State) -- New York ; Wrecking -- 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.