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Main Street & Maple Avenue, Queens

1 historical photo taken here in 1890.

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  • Queens: Main Street - Maple Avenue, 1890

    Queens: Main Street - Maple Avenue

    1890

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Queens: Main Street - Maple Avenue, 1890

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Queens: Main Street - Maple Avenue

1890

Main Street, south from and across Maple Avenue to Franklin Avenue, showing an early view of the street when it was still known as Jagger Avenue. Townsend Lawrence about 1890

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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