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The Stony Brook Post Office

Collection: Postcard Collection at the Archives at Queens Library
Date: 1941 Material: Paper Dimension: 4.7 x 7.5 inches; 400 dpi
Identifier: aql:17915 pcc-010198 pcc-010198.tif

Description: Post Office, Stony Brook, L.I. The Stony Brook Post Office, centerpiece of the main crescent of shops in Stony Brook Village Center. Beginning in 1939, Ward Melville used his wealth to begin the transformation of the hamlet into his idea of an idyllic New England village, with white clapboard buildings and quaint stores.

Collection : aql:18038

Date : 1941

Summary/Description : Post Office, Stony Brook, L.I. The Stony Brook Post Office, centerpiece of the main crescent of shops in Stony Brook Village Center. Beginning in 1939, Ward Melville used his wealth to begin the transformation of the hamlet into his idea of an idyllic New England village, with white clapboard buildings and quaint stores.

Subject : Post office buildings

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Coverage : Stony Brook, NY Stony Brook (N.Y.) Suffolk County (N.Y.)

Type : postcard; digital image

Format : Paper; 4.7 x 7.5 inches; 400 dpi

Identifier : aql:17915 pcc-010198 pcc-010198.tif

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