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Construction of the Queensboro Bridge over Blackwell's Island, now Roosevelt Island, in 1905. The bridge was commonly referred to as the Blackwell's Island Bridge.
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Construction of the Queensboro Bridge in 1905, looking west from Ravenswood, Long Island City, toward Blackwell's Island.
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The terminus of the Long Island Rail Road ferry in Long Island City, 1905. The Corona trolley is leaving the station.
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An engineer in his steam locomotive at the Borden Avenue terminal in Long Island City in 1901.
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Reconstruction of the Belmont Tunnel at Hunters Point Avenue in 1910 to prepare for its use as a subway tunnel, now the #7 train line.
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Graduating class of 1912 pose with their diplomas and teachers.
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Members of the Down and Out Club in Maspeth, Queens, 1912.
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Queensboro Bridge under construction, March 1908.
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Airship demonstration flight over a ball field at 89th Avenue-Jamaica Avenue in 1908.
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Opening day of the Queensboro Bridge, March 30 1909. Photo depicts NYC Mayor George B. McClellan Jr. and other city officials in the first automobile to cross from Manhattan, paying a toll of 10 cents.
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33rd Street station on the No. 7 subway, Long Island City, 1985.
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New York and Queens County trolley car, Astoria, 1905.
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Postal workers pose for portrait, Ridgewood Station, Brooklyn, 1902.
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August and Wilhelmina Geipel in an Astoria portrait studio, circa 1900.
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Adolf Quatfasel's cafe in Astoria, circa 1900.
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Charles Pilnacek's horse-shoeing shop in Astoria, 1915.
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Thompson Avenue in Long Island City, circa 1915, looking westward. The 900,000 sq. ft. factory was the largest bakery building in the world, until 1955.
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Hell Gate Bridge, about 1917.
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John Sharpe poses in the doorway of his Fulton Avenue fire-proofing shop in Astoria, 1912.
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Steinway Avenue, Astoria, circa 1917.
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Fulton Street, Jamaica, with a tavern at left, circa 1909.
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Elizabeth Augente typing a document as secretary for the Long Island Title Guarantee Trust Company in Astoria, Queens, 1908.
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Queensboro Bridge trolley at the Vernon Boulevard station, 1947.
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Grand Pier and ferry terminal at North Beach, Astoria, 1905.
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Postcard from Erbe's Hotel and Casino at North Beach, Astoria, 1905.
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Not the Bates house, but the Astoria home of Mary Totten Dulcken, principal of Long Island City high school, circa 1904.
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A class at P.S. 7, 21st and Astoria Boulevard, Astoria, Queens, circa 1900.
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Pechette's Plaza Theatre, Queens Plaza at Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, Queens, 1913.
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Queensboro Bridge Plaza, with Brewster building at right, circa 1909-14.
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Postcard of P.S. 1 on Jackson Avenue and 21st Street, Long Island City, circa 1910, before the clock tower was demolished.
