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10th Avenue & 147th Street, Queens

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  • Queens: 10th Avenue - 147th Street, 1932

    Queens: 10th Avenue - 147th Street

    1932

  • Queens: 147th Street - 10th Avenue, 1932

    Queens: 147th Street - 10th Avenue

    1932

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Queens: 10th Avenue - 147th Street, 1932

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Queens: 10th Avenue - 147th Street

1932

10th Avenue (right), at the N.E. corner of 147th Street, showing a frame house with watch tower, popular in the second half of the nineteenth century. It was owned by W. S. Overton Douglass in 1891 and by George B. Douglas in 1909. The house on the right was owned by O'Brien. P. L. Sperr March 5, 1932

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