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Sheepshead Bay Road & East 15th Street, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Sheepshead Bay Road - 15th Street (East), 1923

    Brooklyn: Sheepshead Bay Road - 15th Street (East)

    1923

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Brooklyn: Sheepshead Bay Road - 15th Street (East), 1923

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Brooklyn: Sheepshead Bay Road - 15th Street (East)

1923

Sheepshead Bay Road, at the N.W. corner of East 15th Street, showing the Adelphi Hotel owned by Casper Schmuessler in 1891. March 1923. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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