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Jamaica Avenue & 116th Street, Queens

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  • Queens: Jamaica Avenue - 116th Street, 1906

    Queens: Jamaica Avenue - 116th Street

    1906

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Queens: Jamaica Avenue - 116th Street, 1906

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Queens: Jamaica Avenue - 116th Street

1906

Jamaica Ave., east from 116th Street, showing at the N.E. corner of 116th Street and Jamaica Ave., the H.J. Schroeder & Co. store, formerly No. 3301. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection. About 1906.

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