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  • Brooklyn: Cropsey Avenue., 1936

    Brooklyn: Cropsey Avenue.

    1936

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Cropsey Avenue., 1936

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Brooklyn: Cropsey Avenue.

1936

Cropsey Ave., no.1736. Federal Art Project, "Changing New York," photographs by Berenice Abbott, 50 Commerce St., N.Y.C. Oct. 29, 1936

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