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Gas lamp on street
Object Number 2004.24.29716
Display Title Gas lamp on street
Descriptions
Keywords
  • Urban Center
  • Ethnographic
Subject
  • Street
Department Photographic
Date 1981
Artist Hillel S. Burger
Culture
  • Lowland Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Mexico / Yucatan / <County> / Merida
Materials Negative, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 10.16 x 12.7 cm (4 x 5 in.)

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