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Broadway & Schaeffer Street, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Broadway - Schaeffer Street, 1941

    Brooklyn: Broadway - Schaeffer Street

    1941

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Broadway - Schaeffer Street, 1941

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Brooklyn: Broadway - Schaeffer Street

1941

Broadway, adj. n.e. cor. Schaeffer St., Brooklyn. P. L. Sperr, photographer August 3, 1941

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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