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Palmetto Street & Bushwick Avenue, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Palmetto Street - Bushwick Avenue, 1941

    Brooklyn: Palmetto Street - Bushwick Avenue

    1941

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Palmetto Street - Bushwick Avenue, 1941

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Brooklyn: Palmetto Street - Bushwick Avenue

1941

Palmetto Street and Bushwick Avenue, n.e. cor., Brooklyn. P. L. Sperr, photographer August 3, 1941

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