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  • Public Schools - Brooklyn - P.S. 166., 1931

    Public Schools - Brooklyn - P.S. 166.

    1931

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Public Schools - Brooklyn - P.S. 166., 1931

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Public Schools - Brooklyn - P.S. 166.

1931

259 South 4th Street, north side, west of Marcy Avenue, showing the Williamsburg Construction School, the former Public School No. 166. Board of Education of the City of New York June 24, 1931

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