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Jacob Riis Park, Rockaway Point, Queens County, NY

Jacob Riis Park, Rockaway Point, Queens County, NY

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Jacob Riis Park, Rockaway Point, Queens County, NY

Jacob Riis Park, Rockaway Point, Queens County, NY

Jacob Riis Park, Rockaway Point, Queens County, NY

Jacob Riis Park, Rockaway Point, Queens County, NY

Jacob Riis Park, Rockaway Point, Queens County, NY

Jacob Riis Park, Rockaway Point, Queens County, NY

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Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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1980
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Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Price, Virginia Barrett, transmitter
Mason, Anne, transmitter
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Library of Congress
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http://www.loc.gov/
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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Just about every New York City adult, and millions more nationwide who watch crime stories on American television, has heard of Rikers Island. It's the vast city's main jail complex in the middle of the East River. This photo of a lovely house and grounds was obviously taken elsewhere . . . at the home in the city's Queens borough whose original owner, Dutch immigrant Abraham Rycken Van Lent, whose family name would be americanized as "Riker", also owned the island that would one day hold the notorious jail

A clock sitting on top of a mantle next to a window, possibly related to: Clock in the home of John Landers, a farmer living near Marseilles, Illinois

Muffler shop in the Willets Point neighborhood of New York City's borough, or county-like jurisdiction, of Queens

Throgs Neck Bridge, Spans East River from Queens to Bronx, Throgs Neck, Bronx County, NY

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from College Point, Queens County, New York

Iraq. (Mesopotamia). Baghdad. River scenes on the Tigris. The Tigris. The clock tower on the river's banks. The citadel is seen in the distance

Old Royal Palace, formerly living rooms of the Kings and Queens, Seoul, Korea

Belmont Racetrack, Queens, Long Island, New York. View VI

Scene along Northern Boulevard in the Flushing neighborhood of the New York City borough (or county-like juristiction) of Queens

Shuck pile. Rock Point, Maryland. These shells are returned to river to start new beds

Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Hotels and clubs; Rockaway Point, N.Y., 1879

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from College Point, Queens County, New York

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