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Item MM 704
Negative - Woman Aiming a Rifle at a Plaster Model of a Lion, Ararat, Victoria, circa 1925
Description of Content
A woman, wearing calf-length slacks, standing in a back yard and aiming a rifle at a small plaster Model of a lion.
