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Scared, rock landscape with houses in the distance

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05137.183 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 1861-1865 ca. Pagination: 1 stereocard Order a Copy

No identification. Shows a large rocky field with a road running left to right in the middle-distance and several buildings in the background.

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