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Manuscripts

Harry Aleson reaching an oar so the tip of the blade was at the high level of the spring floods prior to the removal of the Separation Plaque to its present higher level

Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1943, Dec.
Call number: mssMarston papers V097/0161
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