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Sanford Avenue & Union Street, Queens

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  • Queens: Sanford Avenue - Union Street, 1909

    Queens: Sanford Avenue - Union Street

    1909

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Queens: Sanford Avenue - Union Street, 1909

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Queens: Sanford Avenue - Union Street

1909

Sanford Ave., north side, between Union St. (left) and Bowne Street (right), showing a former Public School No. 22 which is listed in 1926 as Public School No. 20. About 1909. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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