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The "Crawlers" by John Thomson — VisualArtsDB

The "Crawlers"

The "Crawlers"

1877

Medium: Woodburytype, from the album "Street Life in London"
Dimensions: Image/paper: 11.6 × 8.8 cm (4 5/8 × 3 1/2 in.); Mount: 27.1 × 20.9 cm (10 11/16 × 8 1/4 in.)
Genre: photograph
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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