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King Street & Van Brunt Street, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: King Street - Van Brunt Street, 1938

    Brooklyn: King Street - Van Brunt Street

    1938

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: King Street - Van Brunt Street, 1938

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Brooklyn: King Street - Van Brunt Street

1938

King Street west of Van Brunt to Buttermilk Channel, showing in the background one of the Barber Line S.S. June 9, 1938. P. L. Sperr

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