About This Item


  • TitleNo shine today
  • Call NumberWORK_0520
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryFiremen (one on ladder) attending to smoking, one-story brick building; piles of snow on street in foreground. Caption: "No shine today: Firemen battle smoke and flames in shoe shine parlor at 324 Adams St., near Myrtle Ave., this morning. The parlor was polished off by the flames, but fire was brought under control quickly by smoke-eaters."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Jan. 14, 1954; "Eagle photo by Lambert"; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorLambert, Al
  • 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.)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.