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Ralph Avenue & Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Ralph Avenue - Atlantic Avenue, 1940

    Brooklyn: Ralph Avenue - Atlantic Avenue

    1940

  • Brooklyn: Ralph Avenue - Atlantic Avenue, 1942

    Brooklyn: Ralph Avenue - Atlantic Avenue

    1942

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Ralph Avenue - Atlantic Avenue, 1940

Photo 1 of 2 at Ralph Avenue & Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn

Brooklyn: Ralph Avenue - Atlantic Avenue

1940

Ralph Avenue, east side, south from Atlantic Avenue to Dean Street. The block from Atlantic Avenue to Pacific Street is occupied by a gasoline station and a used-car lot. The cone-towered building is the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum, between Pacific and Dean Streets. September 13, 1930 P. L. Sperr

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