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[Photograph of a man and a woman]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC10047.02.051.01 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: circa 1920 Pagination: 1 photograph ; Order a Copy

One photograph of a man and a woman circa 1920. The photograph features a man and a woman in work clothes standing in the middle of a ditch possibly a dried up river-bed.

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