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111th Street & 47th Avenue, Queens

2 historical photos taken here in 1923, oldest first.

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  • Queens: 111th Street - 47th Avenue, 1923

    Queens: 111th Street - 47th Avenue

    1923

  • Queens: 111th Street - 47th Avenue, 1923

    Queens: 111th Street - 47th Avenue

    1923

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Queens: 111th Street - 47th Avenue, 1923

Photo 2 of 2 at 111th Street & 47th Avenue, Queens

Queens: 111th Street - 47th Avenue

1923

Flushing Meadow Park (World's Fair Site), A set of two views. View No. 1 shows the Flushing Meadows looking north from Horace Harding Blvd., showing at the left is 111th Street from Corona Avenue. View number two is taken from a point west of 111th Street and Forty-seventh Avenue, and shows in the foreground Forty-seventh Avenue. The homes seen in this view are on the east side of 111th Street just north of the avenue. All buildings and the dumps have been leveled and the area is now a part of the World's Fair Grounds. May 1923. Views 1 and 2 Eugene L. Armbruster

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