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Title
The City of Brooklyn
title QS:P1476,en:"The City of Brooklyn"
label QS:Len,"The City of Brooklyn"
label QS:Les,"La ciudad de Brooklyn"
label QS:Lfr,"Le ville de Brooklyn"
label QS:Lde,"Die Stadt Brooklyn"
label QS:Lnl,"De stad Brooklyn"
Description
Image by the publishers Currier & Ives. The city of Brooklyn shown in a birds-eye view as it appeared in 1879.
Date
Source Library of Congress
Creator
C.R. Parsons
Permission
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institution QS:P195,Q131454
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Medium lithograph
medium QS:P186,Q15123870
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