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Greenpoint Avenue & Provost Street, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Greenpoint Avenue - Provost Street, 1939

    Brooklyn: Greenpoint Avenue - Provost Street

    1939

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Brooklyn: Greenpoint Avenue - Provost Street, 1939

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Brooklyn: Greenpoint Avenue - Provost Street

1939

Greenpoint Avenue, at the N.E. corner of Provost Street, showing a factory manufacturing hats and seeling direct to the public doing away with both the jobber and the retailers profit. July 25, 1939 P. L. Sperr

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