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Metropolitan Ave & at intersection of Cooper Ave, Queens

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  • Queens: Metropolitan Ave - at intersection of Cooper Ave, 1923

    Queens: Metropolitan Ave - at intersection of Cooper Ave

    1923

  • Queens: Metropolitan Ave - at intersection of Cooper Ave, 1923

    Queens: Metropolitan Ave - at intersection of Cooper Ave

    1923

  • Queens: Metropolitan Ave - at intersection of Cooper Ave, 1923

    Queens: Metropolitan Ave - at intersection of Cooper Ave

    1923

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Queens: Metropolitan Ave - at intersection of Cooper Ave, 1923

Photo 1 of 3 at Metropolitan Ave & at intersection of Cooper Ave, Queens

Queens: Metropolitan Ave - at intersection of Cooper Ave

1923

Metropolitan Ave., south side, at its intersection with Cooper Ave. showing the Saflian Jaeger farmhouse and outbuildings. Some of the owners were: Jaflian Jaeger 1873, G. Yeager 1891, L. Whitemeyer 1896, and one Berkmeyer in 1909. A gas station occupied its site in 1929. This is a set of two views. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection. April 1923. (3) Another and more distant view of the house, seen from Woodhaven Boulevard. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection April, 1923

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