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[Young Woman with Beckers Tabletop Stereoscope]
Photography Studio:Porter Photograph Parlors (American, active Janesville, Wisconsin, 1860s)
Date:1864–66
Medium:Albumen silver print from glass negative
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The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Photography by Call Number: REF TR 9.T53 2015Publication Date: 2015
