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Photographic Prints
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Materials created by Frances
Benjamin Johnston
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Mammoth Cave, Kentucky,
ca. 1891-ca.
1893
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 5020 (G) |
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Extent: 119 photoprints : 43
cyanotype, 42 albumen, 34 gelatin silver ; 35 x 28 cm. or
smaller. |
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Summary: Includes tourist party being led
through cave by black guide; cave entrance, iron gate, narrow
passageways, rock formations--some with graffiti on them. Cottages,
including view of veranda, in vicinity of cave. |
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Wooden box industry,
ca. 1910
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 7512 (F) |
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Extent: 12 photographic prints :
gelatin silver ; 24 x 30 cm. |
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Summary: Mrs. Graham talking with workers
and posed beside lumber; men preparing to cut log; women painting,
assembling, stitching, and labelling what are probably cigar boxes.
Conjectured to have been taken in the U.S. |
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Cathedral of St. John
the Divine, New York, N.Y., c1911
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 8859 (G) |
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Extent: 6 photoprints : gelatin
silver ; 23 x 29 cm. or smaller. |
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Summary: Consecration of choir and two
chapels at Easter. Includes choir and congregation standing during
service, photographed from above. |
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United States mint in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and United States Bureau of Engraving in
Washington, D.C., 1889-1890
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 8861 (G) |
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Extent: 61 photoprints : 31
gelatin silver, 30 cyanotype ; 25 x 30 cm. or smaller. |
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Summary: Buildings and interiors.
Employees, including blacks and women, eating in dining facilities
and performing tasks such as sorting sacks and operating presses;
portraits of officials in offices. Machinery and equipment,
including scales, assay equipment, presses, ovens. |
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People and activities
aboard the U.S.S. Olympia, 1899
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 8868 (G) |
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Extent: 241 photoprints : 151
gelatin silver, 88 cyanotype, 2 albumen ; 28 x 34 cm. or
smaller. |
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Summary: Includes sailors at work and
recreation, with pets, with peddlers, eating, washing clothes, and
being photographed. Boat drill; officer inspecting small arms.
Individual and group portraits, including Admiral Dewey, officers,
Asian cooks, female passengers. Ship at anchor near Naples, Italy;
ship interiors. |
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President McKinley's
inauguration and administration, 1896-1900
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 9214 (H) |
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Extent: 43 photoprints : 31
gelatin silver, 12 cyanotype ; 40 x 48 cm. or smaller. |
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Summary: Includes McKinley taking oath of
office; Washington, D.C., streets; Pension Building interior
decorated for inauguration. Portraits of McKinley with his Cabinet
and with first and second Philippine commissions; signing of peace
protocol and ratification of treaty with Spain. |
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Opening of the 60th U.S.
Congress, 1907
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 9791 (H) |
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Extent: 27 photoprints : gelatin
silver ; 36 x 43 cm. or smaller. |
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Summary: House chamber during swearing in
of Speaker Cannon; enlargements showing small groups of Congressmen
reading or conferring at their desks. One photo includes in the
distance a young Charles Lindbergh with his father. |
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United States Military
Academy, West Point, New York, 1902
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 9792 (F) |
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Extent: 84 photoprints : gelatin
silver ; 23 x 30 cm. or smaller. |
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Summary: Cadets posed for portraits and
engaged in activities, including dress parade, presidential review,
artillery drill, calisthenics, sports, tent pitching; cadets with
female visitors; buildings; President Theodore Roosevelt at
commencement; baseball game. |
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United States Army
artillery practice, 1905
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 9794 (F) |
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Extent: 10 photoprints : gelatin
silver ; 12 x 14 cm. |
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Summary: Explosions in water (captions
indicate submarine tests at various ranges). Harbor and buildings at
"Hendersons Point, P.N.Y." (probably Henderson Harbor, N.Y.).
Soldiers covering their ears while firing artillery. |
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U.S. gun shops, 1903
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 9795 (G) |
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Extent: 98 photoprints : 54
cyanotype, 44 gelatin silver ; 19 x 24 cm. or smaller. |
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Summary: Interiors of gun factory at
Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., showing men working with
machinery, packing ammunition in boxes, and working at desks.
Grounds of plant with piles of manufacturing materials. Firing of
guns. Close-ups of metal castings, with annotation "Prof. Munroe's
experiments." |
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Artistic photographs,
1900-1915
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 9799 (H) |
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Extent: 32 photographic prints :
27 gelatin silver, 5 cyanotype ; 42 x 30 cm. or smaller. |
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Summary: Figures, nude or in classical
garb, dancing in outdoor setting and posed beside water's edge--some
identified as Isadora Duncan's dancers. Outdoor theatrical
production on Long Island. Sculpture in Halls of the Ancients,
Washington, D.C. (on invitation to "Exhibition of Blue Prints" held
on that site). One combination photoprint of man's face and hand
superimposed over stuffed and mounted animals. |
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Aboard the S.S.
Amsterdam, September
1899
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 9803 (F) |
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Extent: 15 photoprints : gelatin
silver ; 10 x 13 cm. |
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Summary: Groups on deck, posing near rail
and reclining in steamer chairs. Women and children in Eastern
European dress seated on deck (probably emigrants). Harbor (possibly
in Europe) visible in background of two photos. |
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Shipboard activities,
1905
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 9805 (F) |
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Extent: 66 photoprints : 62
gelatin silver, 3 cyanotype, 1 albumen ; 15 x 20 cm. or
smaller. |
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Summary: Groups, including Johnston, on
deck playing shuffleboard and posing for photograph by fellow
passenger; young man in costume; children seated on rail. Captain
with sextant; seamen. |
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Ceremonies for Pan
American Union Building cornerstone laying, Washington, D.C., May 11, 1908
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 9808 (F) |
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Extent: 46 photoprints : 40
gelatin silver, 5 cyanotype, 1 albumen ; 23 x 30 cm. or
smaller. |
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Summary: Includes Theodore Roosevelt,
John Barrett, Andrew Carnegie, Elihu Root, and other dignitaries at
or near speaker's rostrum. |
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Frances Benjamin
Johnston's visit to Denver, Colorado, ca. 1903
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 9809 (F) |
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Extent: 20 photoprints : 10
gelatin silver, 10 cyanotype ; 24 x 30 cm. or smaller. |
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Summary: Groups posed in automobile,
carriage, and in front of houses; some include Johnston. Horsecar
"Cherrelyn." Lake. |
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Rough Riders, 1898
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 10007 (F) |
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Extent: 53 photoprints : 34
cyanotype, 15 gelatin silver ; 23 x 30 cm. or smaller. |
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Summary: Theodore Roosevelt conferring
with soldier and posed on horse. Rough Riders in camp at Montauk
Point, including officers' mess; fording river on horseback; with
eagle mascot; posed for group portraits. Band. One image includes
Gen. Joseph Wheeler. |
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Easter egg rolling on
White House lawn, Washington, D.C., 1889
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 10130 (F) |
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Extent: 28 photoprints : 18
gelatin silver, 10 albumen ; 24 x 30 cm. or smaller. |
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Summary: Includes crowds, children
playing on lawn, vendors, police; presidential party observing from
White House portico. |
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Opening of the 59th U.S.
Congress, 1905-1906
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 10810 (H) |
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Extent: 39 photoprints : 22
gelatin silver, 17 cyanotype ; 40 x 51 cm. or smaller. |
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Summary: First session of the House, with
opening ceremonies, swearing in of state delegations, and Speaker
Cannon presiding. |
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Hampton Normal and
Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Virginia, 1899-1900
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 11051 (H) |
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Extent: 173 photoprints : 164
gelatin silver, 9 cyanotype ; 23 x 35 cm. or smaller. |
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Summary: Afro-American students in
laboratories and liberal arts and agricultural science classes.
Vocational education, including shipbuilding at Newport News,
farming, carpentry, and home economics activities. Whittier Primary
School classes. Group portraits of student organizations and band.
Buildings, campus, and rural life in surrounding area. |
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Arranged by topic. |
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City experiment in
gardening, Bryant Park, New York, N.Y., ca. 1922
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 11310 (F) |
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Extent: 7 photoprints : gelatin
silver ; 19 x 24 cm. or smaller. |
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Summary: Group of visitors watching
gardener at work in garden project in Bryant Park. Children
accompanied by adult reading signs describing plants, growth
processes, and cultivation techniques. |
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Washington Inauguration
Centennial Celebration, New York, N.Y., April-May 1889
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 11330 (F) |
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Extent: 35 photoprints : 34
cyanotype, 1 gelatin silver ; 13 x 18 cm. or smaller. |
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Summary: Naval parade in harbor, April
29, 1889. Military, civic, and industrial parades held April 20 and
May 1, including members of patriotic societies, Benjamin Harrison,
and Oliver Ames; floats--some advertising business enterprises;
spectators; police. |
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White House, Washington,
D.C., 1889-1906
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 11350 (G) (H) |
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Extent: 499 photoprints : 351
gelatin silver, 139 cyanotype, 9 albumen ; 25 x 30 cm. or
smaller. |
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Summary: Exterior views and floor plans.
Interiors, including East Room, Green Room, Blue Room, Red Room,
dining rooms, unidentified formal rooms, corridors and vestibules,
President's office and library, bedrooms and nursery, Cabinet Room,
staff offices and work areas, and conservatory. Paintings,
decorative pieces, and sculpture. Gardens, grounds, and
outbuildings; outdoor events, such as receptions. |
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Arranged by location or topic. |
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Pastoral play and
country fair in Washington, D.C., May 4, 1906
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 11500 (F) |
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Extent: 189 photoprints : 136
gelatin silver, 53 cyanotype ; 30 x 23 cm. or smaller. |
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Summary: Includes actors and actresses
portraying the seasons, shepherdesses, milkmaids, etc., outdoors;
dancing minuet; posed for individual and group portraits. People at
fair booths, including Johnston's tintype gallery; fortune tellers.
(Fund raising event sponsored by local charity organizations for
relief of victims of San Francisco fire--Washington Post, May 4,
1906.) |
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Naval Academy,
Annapolis, Maryland, ca.
1902
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 11528 (G) |
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Extent: 91 photoprints : 55
gelatin silver, 36 cyanotype 24 x 30 cm. or smaller and 27
photomechanical prints : halftone images 14 x 20 cm. or smaller, on
12 sheets 29 x 24 cm. |
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Summary: Includes buildings, grounds,
midshipmen's activities, visitors, including Theodore Roosevelt;
street scenes in Annapolis. |
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Washington, D.C.,
architecture and views, 1890-194-?
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 11727 (G) (H) |
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