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Building with crenellated wings, central tower, two chimneys. Man on top of flagpole

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Unidentified two-story historic house 18th or 19th Century. Cannons and will on lawn. Flagpole. Trees. Small back porch or portico with four Doric columns

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School: “The Conrad Poppenhusen Association Evening Classes” and “Departments: Drawing, Arts and Crafts, Commercial, Physical, Recreation” signs on either side of door. Sign over 2nd story windows: “Poppenhusen-1868-Institute”

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School, “Parental School,” Spanish-style roof, first floor arched windows, with 3-story tower and covered terrace on tower

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Suburban houses of 1920s vintage, some earlier. Telephone poles parked auto. Woman seated on brick stoop of nearest house. Laundry on line at [Left] rear. Many houses have peaked roofs

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Suburban street lined with trees. Small houses, most by Victorian era. Automobile in distance. Telephone wires

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Boys wearing knickers in front of two-story wooden house with wings one boy on bike. Arrows on the telephone pole, one points to “Island Park-Long Beach.” Sign at dead end street reads “Keep [Right].” Illegible street sign arrow on tree at [Right]-hand corner. Low shrub in front of house

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Two-story wooden house behind picket fence. Attic window has plaque: “1661.” Side of house facing street. Window shutters are open. Hitching post in unpaved street. Telephone wires

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Tudor house. Stairway can be seen through open front door. Fire hydrant in street

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Large Victorian shingle house. Porch extends nearly to end of house. Woman stands on porch. Each end of house is curved, at [Left] porch curves around side. At [Right] exterior chimney visible on side of round wing of house

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Wooden shack-rowboat, dinghy on stilts with lumber stone wall [Left], trees

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Parade, looking northwest from Broadway along Waverly Place. Banners, flags, state emblems on building cornice. Portrait of George Washington “1789-1889” on side of building. Men in top hat, derbies, homburgs. Some women carry parasols. Babies in arms. People in windows. Policemen. Watching marching bands of boys and men

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Portrait of man, wire-rimmed glasses, in uniform with double-headed eagle emblem on cap and belt buckle. He clutches sword, handle of which has Iron Cross emblem, cross, and at very top, reproduction of knight’s helmet with visor. Man has droopy, bushy mustache

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Same man as above, in fraternal regalia. On head is chef-like toque with fringed ear flaps. Jeweled headband inscribed “Holiness…to the Lord…” Breast-plate with same inscription, rows of small squares reading Judah, Issachair, Zebulon, Reuben, Simcon, Gad Ephraim, etc. Apron embroidered with lion, fringes

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Men lined up for parade in civilian dress. Leader wears derby. Seven men in row behind. Larger group building includes women. Loft building at [Right], apartment house at [Left]

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Six men standing. Short one in [Center] wearing derby is bow-legged. Tallest at [Right], coat over arm, flower in buttonhole. Construction building

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Woman in Gibson Girl outfit standing by her bicycle

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Picnic, men seated at long table all wearing hats. Others stand behind them, all look at camera

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Outing; horse and surrey with passengers. Men and children standing in front and by surrey. Trees building All look at camera. 19th Century

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Large posed group; men, women, children; trees behind them. 1890s. Outing

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Country house porch. Man [Foreground]. at [Right] holding harnessed horse. Bird cage on porch at [Right]. Two people seated on porch. Group of women, children, doll carriage. Trees. 19th Century

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Group of men and several boys posed in front of building. Probably church or school simple structure, 19th Century

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Group of men surveying houses building, telephone poles

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Group of laborers in a ditch. Two harnessed horses. Dirt being hauled away on tracks. Trees large wooden house building

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