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Mangel Florist Car

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Description: Shown is the car for Mangel Florist, offering "choicest flowers, best service, and moderate pricing." John Venizelos, taking the name 'Mangel' after immigr...
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Three Villages Tea House

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Description: View of a parlor in the Three Villages Tea House. The room features a sitting area, a grandfather clock, lamps, a flower arrangement and displayed vases an...
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Dining Room

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Description: Interior view of a dining room featuring table with a small sculpture in the center, rustic chairs, a screened in fireplace, decorative vases, flower arran...
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Amalgamated Clothing Workers Cooperative Apartments Kitchen

Date: 1930
Description: View of the kitchen at Amalgamated Clothing Workers Cooperative apartments. The narrow room features a checker-tiled floor, a small table and chairs, a flo...
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Boxwood Manor

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Description: A view of the main rooms of the Boxwood Manor. On the left is a flower arrangement on a table in front a large mirror.
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Workers' Unity House Dining Room

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Description: View down center of the dining room, looking toward the entrance door. The hall leading from the door to the dining room proper has a long carpet running i...
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Central Park Officers' House

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Description: An interior view of the library of the Central Park Officers' House. Seven men read in wooden and wicker chairs and decorative lighting hangs from the cei...
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Church Interior

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Description: A view of three small altars. The center altar, set in an alcove, is dedicated to the Virgin Mary; a statue is placed above an ornately decorated cloth and...
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Stone Church

Date: 1900
Description: A view of the Stone Church interior looking toward the altar and first rows of pews. The altar consists of a raised platform with two chairs, each flanking...
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Church Altar

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Description: View down aisle toward the sanctuary area. An altar screen covered in vines separates the sanctuary area from the seating area and on in it is a banner tha...
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Holy Family Academy May Crowning

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Description: View of a young girl presenting a crown of flowers to a woman who will place it on the statue of Mary at Holy Family Academy, built in 1909. A pew is in th...
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May Crowning at the Crucifiction Shrine

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Description: View of a May Crowning ceremony at the Crucifiction Shrine, led by the Sisters of Charity, founded in Pennsylvania in 1870. Women carry a long cloth and ca...
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Convent of Our Lady of the Cenacle

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Description: A view of the chapel altar, made of carved wood. A vase of carnations sits on the right altar gate. The altar itself has a cloth covering the top, with ca...
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Academy of Jesus and Mary

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Description: Chapel interior, showing the altar and seating areas. The altar has a lacy covering over the top. The back area contains the tabernacle, a crucifix, vases ...
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St. Michael's Episcopal Church

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Description: View down aisle toward the altar, which is covered with an ornamented textile and is contained in an apse with a pointed archway. Behind this is a crucifix...
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Assumption Church

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Description: View from aisle toward the main and side altars of the Assumption Church. Murals decorate the walls and the main altar contains four statues and a mural o...
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Mount St. Joseph

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Description: The entrance hallway contains a large statue of St. Joseph carrying Jesus with a vase of flowers and chalice sitting at the feet. The ceiling has heavy cro...
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Memorial Hall at Jefferson College

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Description: Interior of Memorial Hall at Jefferson College, chartered in 1802. The walls are lined with framed portraits hanging from picture rails, with chairs below....
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Montauk Manor

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Description: View of the dining room at Montauk Manor, which opened in 1927 and was designed by Carl Fisher. Large windows line the walls and tables are set with flower...
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St. Xavier's Academy

Date: 1920
Description: Slightly elevated view of desks which are arranged in rows inside a classroom at St. Xavier's Academy. The teacher's desk is angled in a corner to the righ...

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