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Brooklyn: 6th Avenue - 51st Street
1930

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Brooklyn: 6th Avenue - 51st Street

1930

6th Avenue, west side, from 50th to 51st Streets, showing Public School No. 94. The view is from 51st Street. Board of Education of the City of New York September 9 1930

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