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The London Boardmen by John Thomson — VisualArtsDB

The London Boardmen

The London Boardmen

1881

Medium: Woodburytype, plate 10 in the book "Street Incidents" (1881)
Dimensions: Image/paper: 11.7 × 8.3 cm (4 5/8 × 3 5/16 in.); Page/mount: 27.7 × 21.5 cm (10 15/16 × 8 1/2 in.)
Genre: photography
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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