About This Item
- TitleFive-alarmer on Brooklyn waterfront
- Call NumberWORK_0515
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (WORK 0514), some of which may also be described in this new record; Identical images of two firetrucks on slushy, snowy street, with firemen directing water into smoking building at right; other firemen, police, and pedestrians amid tangle of hoses in foreground. Caption: "Five-alarmer on Brooklyn waterfront: Firemen battle the five-alarm fire ripping through a block-long Brooklyn warehouse on the Erie Basin waterfront Jan. 15. Fifteen firemen were trapped briefly and rescued by other firefighters during the blaze...."
- Date1954
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white ; 9 x 7 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Jan. 19, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; United Press Photo stamp.
- CreatorUnited Press Associations
- Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
- SubjectFires -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fire fighters -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceRed Hook (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.