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Number Three?, On The Mark-Turnstiles finally reached, New York subway patrons pay their nickels and take their choice Bronx, flushing or Brooklyn. Th(...)
Number Three?, On The Mark-Turnstiles finally reached, New York subway patrons pay their nickels and take their choice Bronx, flushing or Brooklyn. Th(...)

Number Three?, On The Mark-Turnstiles finally reached, New York subway patrons pay their nickels and take their choice Bronx, flushing or Brooklyn. Th(...)

Date3/1/1947
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Original Toronto Star caption: Number Three?; On The Mark-Turnstiles finally reached; New York subway patrons pay their nickels and take their choice Bronx; flushing or Brooklyn. The innocent stranger usually concludes all trains. Regardless of where they are headed; wind up in Brooklyn.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0118361F
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Machine which performs secondary sorting of coins. Boxes hold (1) Large coppers and quarters (2) Large nickels (3) small coppers and (4) dimes
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Picture of children lined up at a bookmobile. 
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