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Jamaica Avenue & 221st Street, Queens

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  • Queens: Jamaica Avenue - 221st Street, 1925

    Queens: Jamaica Avenue - 221st Street

    1925

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Queens: Jamaica Avenue - 221st Street, 1925

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Queens: Jamaica Avenue - 221st Street

1925

Jamaica Ave., at the S.W. corner of 221st Street, showing the W. S. Nichols house of 1891. April 1925 Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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