Digital reproduction of a photograph of Horniman Gardens boating pond with railway in the background, circa 1910
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Slide of a shaman without a hat and young men lining up to have skewers inserted into the skin on their backs
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Plantain growing
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Photographs of Gracie Fields, Norma Varden and Sydney Howard in Shipyard Sally
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Black and white medium format negative of a close up of a tractor lifting logs
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