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Playing Instruments in a Parlor
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Two men and a woman are posing sitting in a parlor and holding musical instruments. The woman is sitting on the right in front of a piano playing a banjo. The two men are sitting in the center in front of a doorway. One is playing a mandolin, and the other man is playing a guitar.
Van Schaick, Charles
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