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  • Brooklyn: 47th Street - 3rd Avenue, 1940

    Brooklyn: 47th Street - 3rd Avenue

    1940

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: 47th Street - 3rd Avenue, 1940

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Brooklyn: 47th Street - 3rd Avenue

1940

317 and 321 47th Street, north side, east of Third Avenue, showing a Swedish Church (the little, white building), and Public School No. 2. September 8, 1940 P. L. Sperr

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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