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  • Manhattan: Charles Street., 1938

    Manhattan: Charles Street.

    1938

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Manhattan: Charles Street., 1938

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Manhattan: Charles Street.

1938

Doorway, 16-18 Charles Street, Manhattan Federal Art Project "Changing New York" Berenice Abbott, photographer [Note: negative at Museum of the City of New York] Code I A-3 June 1, 1938

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