The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-01-19
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demonstrated, have eXcrted themselves to
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| the best foreign masters, selected with II
view to the highest artistic success. and
! greatest general interest avoiding such n
have become familiar. through photographs
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The quarterly tinted plates for 1873. will
reproduce four of John :. Davis inimitahle
child-skctchcs. apprcp pirate to the four sea-
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