The Fire Escape

Item

Title
The Fire Escape
Description
The only fire escape on the Asch building available to the factory workers during the devastating fire. Printed on border: "The only fire-escape on the Asch building. It hung in a closed court which was full of fire in a few moments. By this fire-escape it would have taken three hours to empty the three upper floors of the building."
Creator
Brown Brothers
Date
1911
Source
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library.
Rights
Public domain
Type
Photograph
Format
.jpg
Language
English
Coverage
1911