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Columbia Street & Creamer Street, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Columbia Street - Creamer Street, 1938

    Brooklyn: Columbia Street - Creamer Street

    1938

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Columbia Street - Creamer Street, 1938

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Brooklyn: Columbia Street - Creamer Street

1938

Columbia Street, east side, south from the N.E. corner of Creamer and Columbia Streets, showing at the aforementioned corner the Berg Varnish Co. Inc. building. Beyond it occupying the block between Creamer and Bay Street is the H. Hobstamm and Co. building. They are manufacturers of dry colors. June 9, 1938. P. L. Sperr

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