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Tenements & storefronts, Manhattan

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  • Tenements & storefronts; Sommer's Monuments: 298 E. 2nd St-E. Houston St, Manhattan, 1937

    Tenements & storefronts; Sommer's Monuments: 298 E. 2nd St-E. Houston St, Manhattan

    1937

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Tenements & storefronts; Sommer's Monuments: 298 E. 2nd St-E. Houston St, Manhattan, 1937

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Tenements & storefronts; Sommer's Monuments: 298 E. 2nd St-E. Houston St, Manhattan

1937

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