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Raid on a Sand-swallow Colony – "How Many Eggs?" (from…

Winslow Homer • 1874

Raid on a Sand-swallow Colony – "How Many Eggs?" (from "Harper's…, 1874

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Wood engraving
Birds
Boys

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