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The "Crawlers" by John Thomson — VisualArtsDB

The "Crawlers"

The "Crawlers"

1881

Medium: Woodburytype, plate 15 in the book "Street Incidents" (1881)
Dimensions: Image/paper: 11.5 × 8.7 cm (4 9/16 × 3 7/16 in.); Page/mount: 27.7 × 21.1 cm (10 15/16 × 8 5/16 in.)
Genre: photography
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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