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Brooklyn: Winthrop St. - Utica Ave.
1936

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Brooklyn: Winthrop St. - Utica Ave.

1936

Winthrop Street, west from Utica Avenue, showing the W. P. A. conducting a highway project. Shown, too, is the Brooklyn State Hospital. August 11, 1936 Works Progress Administration Five Boroughs Project

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