About This Item

  • TitleTenement fire in Williamsburg
  • Call NumberWORK_0550
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryFiremen on upper floors of fire escape at smoking brick building. Caption: "Tenement fire in Williamsburg: Firemen clamber up fire escape, pour tons of water into 3-alarm blaze at 253 Stockton St...."
  • 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: Apr. 3, 1954; photographer's stamp; Brooklyn Eagle stamp.
  • CreatorMcNamara, C. E.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFires -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fire fighters -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fire escapes -- 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.