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Oliver Place & Decatur Avenue, Bronx

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  • Bronx: Oliver Place - Decatur Avenue, 1938

    Bronx: Oliver Place - Decatur Avenue

    1938

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Bronx: Oliver Place - Decatur Avenue, 1938

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Bronx: Oliver Place - Decatur Avenue

1938

Oliver Place, south side, west from Decatur to Marion Avenues. The thoroughfare appears as unpaved and extends from the foreground to a point beyond the fence where an automobile is partly visible. June 16, 1938. P. L. Sperr

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