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Main Street
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View down center of Main Street with cobblestones. There is a railroad crossing in the foreground. Service garages are on the left and right corners. Parked cars and pedestrians are along the curbs. A sculpture of a bird is on the roof of a restaurant on the left.
1922
Gillett, Sherwin
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