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Athenaeum Club
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Description
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Photograph of the Kansas City Athenaeum building at the corner of Campbell St. and Linwood Boulevard circa 1981. The building, designed by architect Samuel Tarbet and opened in 1914, serves was the home for the Kansas City Women's Athenaeum Club, which was founded in 1894 and focused on cultural programming for local women. With club membership dwindling, the building was sold to the Kansas City alumnae chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority in 2015. The LaSalle apartment building, a 14-story building which served as apartments, a hotel, and senior housing and was demolished in 2001, can be seen to the east of the Athenaeum.
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Date
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1981~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Athenaeum Club
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Description
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Photograph of the Kansas City Athenaeum building at the corner of Campbell St. and Linwood Boulevard circa 1981. The building, designed by architect Samuel Tarbet and opened in 1914, serves as the home for the Kansas City Women's Athenaeum Club, which was founded in 1894 and focused on cultural programming for local women. With club membership dwindling, the building was sold to the Kansas City alumnae chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority in 2015. The LaSalle apartment building, seen in the photograph with the name Defenders' Townhouse, Inc., was a senior housing facility at 922 Linwood. The 14-story building also served as apartments and a hotel and was demolished in 2001.
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Date
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1981~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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4632 Wyandotte Street
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Description
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Photograph of a retail strip at the intersection of Wornall Road and Wyandotte Street circa 1980. Renner's Shoe Repair is among the businesses pictured. Other Plaza hotels and apartment buildings can be seen in the background of the image.
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Date
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1980~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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3825-3849 Main Street
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Description
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Photograph of the 3800 block of Main Street, including the Normandy Building at 3825-37 Main, the Monarch Storage Warehouse at 3829 Main, and the Netherlands Hotel and apartment building at 3835 Main, circa 1982. The Monarch Building was designed in 1921 by architect C. B. Sloan, and the metal facade on the lower two levels was added in 1963. The building housed the American White Goods Company at the time of the photograph.The 3835 Main building opened as the Tocama Apartments in 1928 and designed by architect Robert F. Gornall, and was in 1931 was renamed the Netherlands Hotel, continuing to serve as an apartment building and hotel. It was vacant at the time of this photograph after the city deemed it a dangerous building. Shortly thereafter, it was renovated and renamed the Hawthorne Plaza Apartments. A section of the boarded-up Hyde Park Building is also visible at the right edge of the photograph.
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Date
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1982~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Radisson Hotel
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Description
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Photograph, circa early 1990s, of the Hotel Phillips building at 106 W. 12th Street. Built in 1929, the building started out as Hotel Phillips and changed hands several times, only to come around to being the Hotel Phillips again in the early 2000s. The Hotel Phillips was listed on the Kansas City Register of Historic Places in 1978 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. At the time of the photo, it was operating as the Radisson Suite Hotel Kansas City.
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Date
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1990~/1999~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Crown Center
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Description
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Photograph of the Westin Crown Center Hotel and the Crown Center Complex, from the east side of Grand Boulevard, in the early 1980s. The glass atrium of the Crystal Pavillion restaurant can be seen at the left.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Baltimore Avenue through the Plaza
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Description
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Photograph looking north on Baltimore Avenue, just north of Ward Parkway, circa 1987. The Fountain View building (later American Century Investments north tower) is visible in the center of the image, with the One Main Plaza office building and Marriott Hotel, on Main Street, visible at right.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Cordova Hotel
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Description
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Photograph from late 1980s of the Cordova Hotel at 523 W 12th Street. The building was nominated for the National Register of Historic Places and placed on the Kansas City Register of Historic Places in 1986. Built in 1889, the Cordova Hotel's architect was Frank Resch. This five-story brick and cut-stone building has been converted into apartments. The ABC Store in the foreground has been torn down and replaced by a parking lot for the apartment residents.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Plaza Aerial View
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Description
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Aerial photograph looking west along 47th Street in the 1980s, Main Street west to Jarboe Street. The Nelson-Atkins Museum's grounds can be seen in the lower right, with Westwood, Kansas, at the top edge. Brush Creek is visible at the left of the image, with Plaza commercial and residential buildings filling the bulk of the picture.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph, Cityscapes
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Title
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Raphael Hotel
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Description
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Photograph circa 1980s, facing south, of a building at 325 Ward Parkway, home to The Raphael Hotel. Originally built in 1928 as the Villa Serena Apartment Hotel, it was renovated and opened as a hotel in 1975. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. Located in the South Plaza neighborhood.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Athenaeum Club
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Description
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Photograph of the Kansas City Athenaeum building at the corner of Campbell St. and Linwood Boulevard circa 1981. The building, designed by architect Samuel Tarbet and opened in 1914, serves was the home for the Kansas City Women's Athenaeum Club, which was founded in 1894 and focused on cultural programming for local women. With club membership dwindling, the building was sold to the Kansas City alumnae chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority in 2015. The LaSalle apartment building, a 14-story building which served as apartments, a hotel, and senior housing and was demolished in 2001, can be seen to the east of the Athenaeum.
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Date
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1981~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Athenaeum Club
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Description
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Photograph of the Kansas City Athenaeum building at the corner of Campbell St. and Linwood Boulevard circa 1981. The building, designed by architect Samuel Tarbet and opened in 1914, serves was the home for the Kansas City Women's Athenaeum Club, which was founded in 1894 and focused on cultural programming for local women. With club membership dwindling, the building was sold to the Kansas City alumnae chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority in 2015. The LaSalle apartment building, a 14-story building which served as apartments, a hotel, and senior housing and was demolished in 2001, can be seen to the east of the Athenaeum.
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Date
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1981~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Embassy Suites and Westport
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Description
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Photograph, looking northwest from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), toward Westport circa 1987. The Embassy Suites hotel, at at 220 West 43rd Street, occupies the center of the image, with commercial buildings in Westport occupying the background of the image. J. C. Nichols Parkway curves through the upper right, and a building on the St. Luke's Hospital campus occupies the lower left.
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Date
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1987~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Nichols Road
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Description
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Photograph, looking northeast from an elevated position at Nichols and Central, of Nichols Road storefronts and other buildings circa 1987. N. Valentino and Strauss-Peyton occupy storefronts on the north side of Nichols, and the Giralda Tower is visible at right. The Fountain View building (later American Century Investments north tower), One Main Plaza, Marriott Hotel, and Hilton Plaza Inn, all near the intersection of 45th and Main Streets, are visible in the background of the image.
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Date
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1987~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Neptune Apartments
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Description
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Photograph of the Neptune Apartments building, looking north east from Broadway Boulevard, at 333 West 46th Terrace circa 1987. The Neptune was built and opened in 1987. The commercial Balcony Building stands to its south on 47th Street, with additional Plaza retail buildings and parking lots photographed on the 4700 block of Broadway. The Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower) office building and Marriott Hotel can be seen in the background at right.
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Date
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1987~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Main Street Buildings and Southmoreland
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Description
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Photograph, looking east from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), circa 1987. One Main Plaza office building occupies the left side of the image, and the Marriott Hotel on the right. The Southmoreland neighborhood and Kansas City Art Institute campus are visible between the buildings.
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Date
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1987~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Main Street, South Plaza
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Description
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Photograph looking north on Main Street through the South Plaza circa 1987. Country Club Bank is pictured at left, at 1 Ward Parkway. Fountain View (later the American Century Investments north tower) is pictured in the background, at 45th and Main. The Plaza Branch of the Kansas City Public Library is pictured at right.
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Date
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1987~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Werby Building
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Description
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Photograph of the Werby Building at the southeast corner of 39th and Main Streets in 1979. The building was designed by Greenebaum, Hardy and Schumacher, opened in 1924, and consisted of office spaces on the second floor and storefronts on the ground level. Efforts to save the building from demolition led to Mayor Richard Berkley named a week in April 1979 "Werby Week," but it was razed not long after. Signs on plywood boards across the storefronts advertise a "Take Back the Night" event, an anti-nuclear energy rally to take place in Burlington, Kansas, at the Wolf Creek Generating Station, and upcoming concerts. The Hyde Park Building, on the northeast corner of 39th and Main, can be seen at the left of the photo, with the Hotel Netherlands to its north.
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Date
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1979
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Plaza Aerial View
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Description
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Aerial photograph looking west along 47th Street in the 1980s, with the intersection of 47th and Main Streets near the center of the image. The Nelson-Atkins Museum's grounds can be seen in the lower right, with Westwood, Kansas, at the top edge. Brush Creek is visible at the left of the image, with Plaza-area commercial and residential buildings filling the bulk of the image.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph, Cityscapes
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Title
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Valentine Hotel
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Description
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Photograph of the Valentine Apartments building at 3724 Broadway Boulevard in the early 1980s. The building was designed by local architect Nelle E. Peters and built in 1927 as the Valentine Hotel. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places as Valentine on Broadway Hotel in 2007. Located in the Valentine neighborhood.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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