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High Bridge Park: Swimming pool, Manhattan

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  • Manhattan: High Bridge Park - Swimming pool., 1937

    Manhattan: High Bridge Park - Swimming pool.

    1937

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Manhattan: High Bridge Park - Swimming pool., 1937

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Manhattan: High Bridge Park - Swimming pool.

1937

High Bridge Park: The new swimming pool that was constructed on the site of the old reservoir. Photographers vantage point is on Amsterdam Ave., at West 172nd Street and viewing northward. July 30, 1937. P. L. Sperr.

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