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Sailors and Sisters, San Francisco, California

Date1976

Artist Donna Ferrato (American photographer, born 1949)

MediumArchival pigment print

Dimensionsimage: 13 1/8 × 20 in. (33.3 × 50.8 cm)
sheet: 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 61 cm)

Credit LineGift of Julie Dwyer & Dr. Thomas Dwyer, 2017

Object number2017-136

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ClassificationsPHOTOGRAPH

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