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Main Street & 38th Avenue, Queens

10 historical photos taken here between 1922 and 1927, oldest first.

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  • Queens: Main Street - 38th Avenue, 1922–1924

    Queens: Main Street - 38th Avenue

    1922; 1924

  • Queens: 38th Avenue - Main Street, 1922

    Queens: 38th Avenue - Main Street

    1922

  • Queens: Main Street - 38th Avenue, 1922–1924

    Queens: Main Street - 38th Avenue

    1922; 1924

  • Queens: Main Street - 38th Avenue, 1922

    Queens: Main Street - 38th Avenue

    1922

  • Queens: 38th Avenue - Main Street, 1922

    Queens: 38th Avenue - Main Street

    1922

  • Queens: Main Street - 38th Avenue, 1922–1924

    Queens: Main Street - 38th Avenue

    1922; 1924

  • Queens: Main Street - 38th Avenue, 1922–1924

    Queens: Main Street - 38th Avenue

    1922; 1924

  • Queens: 38th Avenue - Main Street, 1923

    Queens: 38th Avenue - Main Street

    1923

  • Queens: 38th Avenue - Main Street, 1923

    Queens: 38th Avenue - Main Street

    1923

  • Queens: Main Street - 38th Avenue, 1927

    Queens: Main Street - 38th Avenue

    1927

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Queens: 38th Avenue - Main Street, 1922

Photo 2 of 10 at Main Street & 38th Avenue, Queens

Queens: 38th Avenue - Main Street

1922

Thirty-eighth Avenue (old No. 108-110 Lincoln Street) north side, between Main and Union Streets, showing the Craig house. In 1873 either C.W. Howard, P. Cleary, or G. Higbie was the owner. 1922. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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