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B&W photo of apartment building at 198 Kensington Avenue, Jersey City.
Photograph
Potted plants are in a second floor window. A real estate sign on the first floor reads: SOLD C.B. SNYDER. The trees are leafless. A circa 1940s automobile with a license plate that reads: NY 49 CR39-26 is parked head-first along the curb.
2023.011.0130
Gelatin Print - silver bromide
Apartment building; rectangular plan; 4 stories plus raised basement; 3 bays; brick façade; single and double 2/1 sash windows except entry bay; flat roof; parapet with gablets and pinnacles flanking a central broken pediment; soldier and header brick lintels and stone sills; central steel and glass double-door entrance with transom window and keystone surround; fire escape; stone sill course on fourth floor; soldier brick water table.
Jersey City, NJ
2023.011
John Amato
Donation
circa 1930 - circa 1970
Inscription
Back of print
198 Kensington Ave Jersey City NKM
Handwritten
Inscription
Front of print
198 Kensington Ave. Jersey City (Mangt)
LabelTypewritten
10 in
8 in
