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Lafayette Avenue and Cumberland Street
Lafayette Avenue and Cumberland Street

Board of Water Supply. Laying water distribution pipes. Angelo Paino, contractor. View from junction of Cumberland Street and Lafayette Avenue, looking north on Cumberland Street. Showing wide breakage of the trench excavation because of the old sewer trench. Note the bulkhead made of burlap bags filled with earth. July 23, 1923.

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