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  • Public Works - [Brooklyn - W.P.A. [Works Progress Administration] sewer project.], 1936

    Public Works - [Brooklyn - W.P.A. [Works Progress Administration] sewer project.]

    1936

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Public Works - [Brooklyn - W.P.A. [Works Progress Administration] sewer project.], 1936

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Public Works - [Brooklyn - W.P.A. [Works Progress Administration] sewer project.]

1936

Vanderveer Street, north from Bushwick Avenue, showing a W. P. A. sewer project. May 20, 1936 Works Progress Administration Five Boroughs Project

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