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Glenmore Avenue & Essex Street, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Glenmore Avenue - Essex Street, 1940

    Brooklyn: Glenmore Avenue - Essex Street

    1940

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Glenmore Avenue - Essex Street, 1940

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Brooklyn: Glenmore Avenue - Essex Street

1940

Glenmore Avenue, north side, east from Essex Street to Shepherd Avenue. Note the bales of paper and rags. September 14, 1940 P. L. Sperr

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