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The Quiet Between Alarms

Collection: Long Island Daily Press Photograph Morgue Collection
Date: October 2, 1952; 1952-10-02 Material: gelatin silver prints Dimension: 8 x 6 1/4 inches (print); 400 ppi (digital image)
Creator: Long Island Daily Press Identifier: aql:33046 ldp-003390 ldp-003390.tif

Description: Fireman Louis J. Hommel watches as Captain Bernard Eck (right) and fireman Fred Lazarus (left) play a game of checkers between alarms at the West Hamilton Beach firehouse, one of only two volunteer fire departments left in Queens in 1952.

Collection : aql:16495

Creator : Long Island Daily Press

Date : October 2, 1952; 1952-10-02

Summary/Description : Fireman Louis J. Hommel watches as Captain Bernard Eck (right) and fireman Fred Lazarus (left) play a game of checkers between alarms at the West Hamilton Beach firehouse, one of only two volunteer fire departments left in Queens in 1952.

Subject : Fire stations; Volunteer fire fighters; Eck, Bernard; Lazarus, Fred; Hommel, Louis J.

Rights : Copyright holder unknown

Coverage : 102-33 Davenport Court, Howard Beach, NY Queens (New York, N.Y.) Hamilton Beach (New York, N.Y.) Howard Beach (New York, N.Y.)

Type : black and white print; digital image

Format : gelatin silver prints; 8 x 6 1/4 inches (print); 400 ppi (digital image)

Identifier : aql:33046 ldp-003390 ldp-003390.tif

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Subject:
Fire stations; Volunteer fire fighters; Eck, Bernard; Lazarus, Fred; Hommel, Louis J.
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Copyright holder unknown


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