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Brooklyn Museum adds 19th century lantern slide collections to Flickr

Passionate About History (Mary Harrsch)

Mary Harrsch recently noticed that the Brooklyn Museum has digitized their 19th century lantern slide collection of Egypt and added them to their account on Flickr. See her post for details.

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