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72nd Street & 17th Avenue, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: 72nd Street - 17th Avenue, 1924

    Brooklyn: 72nd Street - 17th Avenue

    1924

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Brooklyn: 72nd Street - 17th Avenue, 1924

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Brooklyn: 72nd Street - 17th Avenue

1924

1670-1672-72nd Street, south side, west of Seventeenth Avenue, showing the home of Anthony S. Janicki (man on steps) in 1924. April 23, 1924. W. B. Vernam

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