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  • Manhattan: 132nd Street., 1936

    Manhattan: 132nd Street.

    1936

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Manhattan: 132nd Street., 1936

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Manhattan: 132nd Street.

1936

Church of God East 132nd Street, no. 25, Manhattan Federal Art Project "Changing New York" Berenice Abbott, photographer [Note: negative at Museum of the City of New York] Code III F-2 Dec. 8, 1936 25 East 132nd St, n.s., betw. Madison and Fifth Avenues, showing the parlor of the former brownstone residence occupied by the Pilgrim Pentecostal Church.

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