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Cast-Iron Billy by John Thomson — VisualArtsDB

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Cast-Iron Billy

Cast-Iron Billy

Cast-Iron Billy

1881

Medium: Woodburytype, plate 7 in the book "Street Incidents" (1881)
Dimensions: Image/paper: 11.7 × 8.9 cm (4 5/8 × 3 9/16 in.); Page/mount: 27.6 × 21.5 cm (10 7/8 × 8 1/2 in.)
Genre: Photography
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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