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    Manhattan: 1st Ave. - 98th St. E.

    1941

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Manhattan: 1st Ave. - 98th St. E., 1941

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Manhattan: 1st Ave. - 98th St. E.

1941

First Avenue and East 98th Street, n.e. cor. P. L. Sperr, photographer June 19, 1941

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