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Sanford Street & Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Sanford Street - Willoughby Avenue, 1929

    Brooklyn: Sanford Street - Willoughby Avenue

    1929

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Sanford Street - Willoughby Avenue, 1929

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Brooklyn: Sanford Street - Willoughby Avenue

1929

Sanford Street, east side, between Willoughby and DeKalb Avenues, showing Public School No. 54. Board of Education of the City of New York October 3, 1929

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