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Atlantic Avenue & Bancroft Place, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Atlantic Avenue - Bancroft Place, 1940

    Brooklyn: Atlantic Avenue - Bancroft Place

    1940

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Atlantic Avenue - Bancroft Place, 1940

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Brooklyn: Atlantic Avenue - Bancroft Place

1940

Atlantic Avenue, east from Bancroft Place. July 13, 1940 P. L. Sperr

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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