About This Item
- TitleSafety at the Navy Yard
- Call NumberNEIG_2401
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryCaption: "Safety at the Navy Yard--Johnny Green Cross, safety symbol for the Green Cross Safety Parade on Manhattan's 5th Ave. on Oct. 17, aims a jet of water from one of the fire-fighting tugs of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Johnny journeyed to the Navy Yard to inspect the 24-foot safety float now being constructed as the Yard's entry in the 5th Ave. safety pageant." Image includes an unidentified sailor standing next to Johnny and a section of New York Harbor and the Brooklyn waterfront, including portions of two covered piers, in background..
- Date1953
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: Brooklyn Eagle stamp; date stamped on caption: Oct 4, 1953. Title from caption on verso.
- Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
- SubjectNew York Naval Shipyard ; Fire extinction -- Equipment and supplies -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fire hose ; Piers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Sailors -- New York (State) -- New York ; Tugboats -- New York (State) -- New York ; Waterfronts -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Navy Yard (New York, N.Y.)New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.)
- 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.