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Flying Dustmen by John Thomson — VisualArtsDB

Flying Dustmen

Flying Dustmen

1881

Medium: Woodburytype, plate 19 in the book "Street Incidents" (1881)
Dimensions: Image/paper: 8.8 × 11.4 cm (3 1/2 × 4 1/2 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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