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Unknown [photograph of sand dunes]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02750.340 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 1861-1877 Pagination: 1 photograph ; 7 x 9.5 cm. Order a Copy

Labeled "Sand dunes some thirty or fifty meters in height and reaching as far as the eye can reach..."

Jenks, Ethan A., fl. 1828-1901

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