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Woman with Pink Flamingos on Bascom Hill
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View uphill towards a woman sitting among a flock of pink flamingo lawn ornaments covering Bascom Hill. She is pretending to feed bread to two pink flamingos in front of her. Bascom Hall and the Abraham Lincoln statue are in the background.
1979
Turner, L. Roger
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WHi 129850
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