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            <publisher>John Carter Brown Library</publisher>
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               <unittitle>Frenchtown Catholic Seminary Lottery, East Greenwich, 1811</unittitle>
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               <unittitle>Auction Catalog of the Altman-Haffner Sale, New York Barbizon PLaza Hotel, April 1975</unittitle>
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