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CSS Description: No. 28, and all of the other buildings on the South side of 51 Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, were demolished when Rockefeller Center was built in the 1930s.

Title: Old Men's Toy Shop Album -- Looking in on Old Men's Toy Shop
Date: between 1919 and 1930
Item Number: 526
Photograph Number: 4262
Format: photographs
Borough: Manhattan
Street Names: West 51st Street, 28
Annotation on Back: From: Old Men's Toy Shop Album Note "2" on door at left This must be Crawford Shops Store at 28 West 51st St. See #5019 The building is no longer there. It is part of the site of Rockefeller Center.
Places: New York (N.Y.)
Topics: Workshops; Wooden toys; Toys; Toy making; Storefronts; Older people--Employment; Older men; Men--Employment; Men; Architecture--Details
Names: Women's Work Interiors (New York, N.Y.); Old Men's Toy Shop (New York, N.Y.); Crawford Work Shops (New York, N.Y.)
Creators: Myers, Hiram
Box and Folder Number: 299: 44
CSS Description: No. 28, and all of the other buildings on the South side of 51 Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, were demolished when Rockefeller Center was built in the 1930s.

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Myers, Hiram. "Old Men's Toy Shop Album -- Looking in on Old Men's Toy Shop." between 1919 and 1930. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, Community Service Society Collection. http://css.cul.columbia.edu:443/catalog/rbml_css_0526 (accessed Oct 20, 2020)