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Summary
Photograph is a reproduction of a painting by Oskar Merté, 1924.
Stamp on back: Landesverband d. ehem. K. B. Schw. Urt., 1923. Handwritten notation indicates that the painting is in the Armee Museum, Munich.
Forms part of the Rehse Archiv für Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik.
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Date
01/01/1924
Source
Library of Congress
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