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A Convicts' Home by John Thomson — VisualArtsDB

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A Convicts' Home

A Convicts' Home

A Convicts' Home

1881

Medium: Woodburytype, plate 1 in the book "Street Incidents" (1881)
Dimensions: Image/paper: 8.9 × 11.5 cm (3 9/16 × 4 9/16 in.); Page/mount: 27.7 × 21.2 cm (10 15/16 × 8 3/8 in.)
Genre: Photography
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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