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Macon Street & Tompkins Avenue, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Macon Street - Tompkins Avenue, 1929

    Brooklyn: Macon Street - Tompkins Avenue

    1929

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Brooklyn: Macon Street - Tompkins Avenue, 1929

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Brooklyn: Macon Street - Tompkins Avenue

1929

Macon Street, south side, between Tompkins and Throop Aves., showing a rear view of a mansion at 87 Mc Donough Street. June 2, 1929 P.L. Sperr

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