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T. Lee Adams
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Advertising card for T. Lee Adams showing a dog surrounded by cattails and reeds. Front of card says: "Compliments of T. Lee Adams, Dealer in Field and Garden Seeds. Telephone 432.." .D. Landreth and Son's Garden, Flower and Lawn Seeds." Front lower left corner has number C-782. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 419 Walnut St., Kansas City, Mo.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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T. Lee Adams
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Description
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Advertising card for T. Lee Adams showing a rural scene with castle surrounded by a border of pansies and a bird. Front of card says: "Compliments of T. Lee Adams, Dealer in Field and Garden Seeds. Telephone 432.." .D. Landreth and Son's Garden, Flower and Lawn Seeds." Front lower left corner has number C-794. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 419 Walnut St., Kansas City, Mo.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., The
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Description
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Advertising card for The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. showing bouquet of flowers identified as Gladioli. Back of card gives "Interesting facts about baking powder" and says: "150 stores in United States." Kansas City address is not given.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Leis' German Baking Powder
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Advertising card for unknown company with image of pink flower. Front of card has poem: "Leis' German Baking Powder, Is the best, Used in the West; Give it a test, And you will be blest." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 1304 Union Avenue, Kansas City, Mo.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Western Installment Book Company, The
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Advertising card for The Western Installment Book Company with image of flower (rose). One of two cards with similar design. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 218 East Twelfth Street, Kansas City, Mo.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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A. J. Runkle and Co.
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Description
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Advertising card for A. J. Runkle and Co. showing a girl holding a doll and reaching for a flower in a vase. One of four cards with similar design. Front of card says: "A. J. Runkle and Co., Fancy Goods, Notions, Jewelry, Hosiery, Gloves, Underwear, andc." Front lower left corner has number 245; lower right corner says: "Copyright 1880 by F. Todd." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 1044 and 1046 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo.
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Date
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1880
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, The
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Advertising card for The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. showing woman and man riding a bicycle. The bicycle spokes are the printed addresses of the company's branch houses around the U.S. Card is cut in shape of the bicycle and riders. Back of card has advertising copy and says among other things: "128 Stores in the United States" and "Positively no polishing matter used in roasting our coffees...no ingredients whatever being used to make them glossy. Beware of glossy coffees." Kansas City address given on front of card: 927 Main St.Kansas City, Mo.
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Date
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1883
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., The
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Description
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Advertising card for The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. showing girl and boy holding hands and swinging around. Card is cut in shape of swinging people. Back of card has small image of an A&P Baking Powder container and advertising copy including: "Interesting facts about baking powder..."if you value good health, use our tea, coffees and baking powder" and "200 stores in United States." No Kansas City address is given.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
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Description
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Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing girl and boy holding hands and swinging around. Card is cut in shape of swinging people. Back of card has small image of an A&P Baking Powder container and advertising copy including: "Interesting facts about baking powder..."if you value good health, use our tea, coffees & baking powder" and "200 stores in United States." No Kansas City address is given.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 57 with Portraits and People in Outdoor Scenes
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Scrapbook page containing eight smaller advertising cards arranged artfully around a larger central card. Central card shows a woman holding a rose. Two small cards show a boy and a girl with flowers. Two tiny cards cut to shape show a girl's face in a flower and a fan. The four other cards show the following:1. Two cards from: "McDonald and Co. 54 State St., Rochester, N. Y. Edwin C. Burt, Fine Shoes." One card shows a couple riding in a sailboat made of a shoe. The other shows a woman being carried in a shoe by dark-skinned, scantilly clad servants. Lower left corner of both cards says: "MKCo."2. Two eskimo or Inuit people riding in a sled pulled by a team of dogs.3. A man carrying a large basket of dishes on his head falling through a window as onlookers are shocked. Caption in French says: "Double Effet De Glaces."
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 20 with Unrelated Cards
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Scrapbook page containing seven advertising cards showing the following:1. A robin, rose, and house. Card says: "Shaub and Burns, Shoe Dealers, 14 North Queen St., Lancaster, Pa...""2. A woman and man cuddling on the beach behind an umbrella, a sailing ship in the water.3. A bird and a flower. Card says: "Use Niagara Gloss Starch. Unexcelled for the Laundry."4. A man sitting on a step hugging a monkey in a red suit inside his coat.5. A farm woman standing in hay holding a rake. Card says: "Bookmark."6. A woman in brightly colored dress sitting in a hammock holding a red parasol. 7. A woman in a pink dress kneeling down to show a man a large, fancy looking stove. Card says: "'Quick Meal Gasoline Stove always work [sic] well.'" Lower right corner has number 957 and lower left corner says: "Kaufmann and Strauss Co., N.Y."
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 2 with Hands and Flowers
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Description
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Scrapbook page containing eight small advertising or calling cards arranged around one larger central card. The central card shows a man bowing and a woman curtsying as they are introduced. It says: "Geo. A. Clark and Bro. Agents for Clark's O.N.T. Spool Cotton." Around the large card are six calling cards with flaps that have images of hands and flowers, and on some, a model sailing ship, doves, horseshoe, shaking hands, and a quill. The flaps lift up to reveal names: Horace D. Lawrence, Geo. W. Sandys, Curtis M. Dewey, Mrs. M. J. Gilmore (two flaps don't lift up). To the sides of the large card are cards cut to the shape of the flowers they depict. One has little people instead of flower buds.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Swift and Company
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Description
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Advertising card for Swift and Company showing a classically dressed woman in sandals, a diaphanous gown, and a fur cape. She has long blonde hair and is holding holly above her head. Edges of card are embossed. Card has some damage. Back of card says: "Wool Soap for Toilet and Bath. There are many people who suppose that, because of its name, Wool Soap is intended for washing woolens only. This is a misconception which Swift and Company are especially desirous of rectifying. Wool Soap is pre-eminently a toilet and bath soap .."." We are large producers of prime tallow, and none but our most carefully selected stock enters into the manufacture of Wool Soap .."." Swift and Company Packing Plants at Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Louis, St. Joseph, St. Paul. Over Two Hundred and Fifty Branch Houses in the United States." Bottom of card says: "American Lithographic Co., N.Y.." No street address is given.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 38 with State Capitols
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Scrapbook page containing 24 advertising cards arranged in eight rows of three showing the State capitol buildings and a few other government buildings. Each card is 4 x 7 cm and identifies the building pictured. One card says: "Use Granger and Co.'s Anchor Brand Soda." The following buildings are depicted:Capitol of the United States in WashingtonNational Museum in Washington, D. C.Patent Office in WashingtonBureau of Printing and Engraving in WashingtonPension Building in WashingtonCapitol of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg Capitol of Massachusetts in BostonCapitol of Maryland in AnnapolisCapitol of New York in AlbanyCapitol of Colorado in DenverCapitol of Connecticut in HartfordCapitol of North Carolina in RaleighCapitol of Kentucky in FrankfortCapitol of Louisiana in Baton RougeCapitol of Maine in AugustaCapitol of Arkansas in Little RockCapitol of Wisconsin in MadisonCapitol of Vermont in MontpelierCapitol of Virginia in RichmondCapitol of Oregon in SalemCapitol of Illinois in SpringfieldCapitol of Iowa in Des Moines Capitol of Nebraska in Lincoln
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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E. T. Slaughter
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Advertising card for E. T. Slaughter showing a child dressed as a clown banging on a drum. Drum has medallions on it that say: "United States of America. 1881." Front of card says: "Gold Coin." Front lower right corner says: "J. Ottmann Lith. Puck Building, N.Y." Back of card says: "Gold Coin Ventiduct Square Base-Burner. Three Sizes--Nos. 134, 135, 137. Each size can be made into a double heater, heating the room in which it stands and a room above..." "Manufatured by Chicago Stove Works, Chicago, Ills." It has an image of the stove and description of how it works. A stamp on the back says: "E. T. Slaughter, Agt. For. K. C." and gives address: 1221 Grand Ave.
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Date
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1895~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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C. E. Hampton, Importer of Novelties
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Advertising card for "C. E. Hampton, Importer of Novelties" showing a bouquet of roses. Each rose is numbered and on the back of the card, all twelve rose varieties in "Hampton's 'Standard Bouquet'" are named. It also says: "50 cents each. $5.00 per doz." Address given on back of card:
.""Hampton's Botanical Garden,
Station on Elevated R. R.
Hampton's Flower Store,
607 Main Street.
Hampton's Seed Warehouse, 313 W. 9th St.
Kansas City, Mo.
Hampton's Greenhouses, Nursery and Seed Farm,
Wyandotte, Kan."
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
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Description
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Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing bouquet of flowers identified as Gladioli. Back of card gives "Interesting facts about baking powder" and says: "150 stores in United States." Kansas City address is not given.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 59 with Feathers, Flowers, and Women
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Description
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Scrapbook page containing nine advertising cards showing the following:1. Flowers (two cards cut to shape).2. A large feather and flowers (two cards).3. Two women sewing. Card says: "Using Poor Spool Cotton."4. A woman standing at a piano. Card says: "Estey Piano Co. New York, Manufacturers...""5. Flowers and doves.6. A woman knitting with a girl hugging her from behind and a cat rubbing on her arm.7. Three tiny clowns struggling to lay a bottle on a table.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 70 with Flowers and Women in Traditional Costume
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Description
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Scrapbook page containing seven advertising cards and a newspaper clipping. The clipping says: "Mr. Nathan Degginger of Kansas City was in our office on Saturday. He and his sister, Bertha, always take in the Sparks Picnic. This is their old home and they have many friends here." Four oval cards each show a woman in the traditional dress of an unidentified country. Two cards show a hand and flowers, one with a fan. One large (18 x 22 cm.) card shows a basket of flowers.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 70 with Flowers and Women in Traditional Costume
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Description
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Scrapbook page containing seven advertising cards and a newspaper clipping. The clipping says: "Mr. Nathan Degginger of Kansas City was in our office on Saturday. He and his sister, Bertha, always take in the Sparks Picnic. This is their old home and they have many friends here." Four oval cards each show a woman in the traditional dress of an unidentified country. Two cards show a hand and flowers, one with a fan. One large (18 x 22 cm.) card shows a basket of flowers.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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