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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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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Queens: 38th Avenue - Main Street, 1922

Photo 5 of 10 at Main Street & 38th Avenue, Queens

Queens: 38th Avenue - Main Street

1922

Thirty-eighth Avenue, south side, (old No. 139-141) between Main and Union Streets, showing a view of a colored school which was erected in 1819. In 1926 it housed the African Methodist Episcopal Church. 1922 Eugene L. Armbruster Collection

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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