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69th Avenue & Queens Boulevard

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  • Queens: 69th Avenue - Queens Boulevard, 1880–1928

    Queens: 69th Avenue - Queens Boulevard

    1880; 1923; 1925; 1928

  • Queens: 69th Avenue - Queens Boulevard, 1880–1928

    Queens: 69th Avenue - Queens Boulevard

    1880; 1923; 1925; 1928

  • Queens: 69th Avenue - Queens Boulevard, 1880–1928

    Queens: 69th Avenue - Queens Boulevard

    1880; 1923; 1925; 1928

  • Queens: 69th Avenue - Queens Boulevard, 1880–1928

    Queens: 69th Avenue - Queens Boulevard

    1880; 1923; 1925; 1928

  • Queens: 69th Street - 63rd Avenue, 1940

    Queens: 69th Street - 63rd Avenue

    1940

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Queens: 69th Avenue - Queens Boulevard, 1880–1928

Photo 2 of 5 at 69th Avenue & Queens Boulevard

Queens: 69th Avenue - Queens Boulevard

1880; 1923; 1925; 1928

At the N.E. corner of Sixty-ninth Avenue and Queens Boulevard, showing the four views of the Ascan Bakus house. In 1923 the Cord Meyer Development Company was the owner. Oscar William Christian Backus was born in 1814 and came to this country in 1829. He died March 18, 1880. He married Mary A. Beetham. A daughter, Mary Eliza, married in 1874 Dr. Howard Lever. April 1923. Views 1 and 2. View 3: March 1925. View 4: October 1928. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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