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Unidentified Photographer, Painted Ceiling in Church, Kumla, Sweden [detail of St. John the Evangelist], ca. 1865-1885. Albumen print photograph. 15/5/3090.00718. Andrew Dickson White Architectural Photographs Collection, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

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