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                    "title": "Year in Review: 1980",
                    "description": "<i>Year in Review: 1980</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981).",
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                    "id": 372033,
                    "title": "No Mere Button-Pressers:  Clarence H. White, Ema Spencer, and the Newark Camera Club",
                    "description": "<i>No Mere Button-Pressers:  Clarence H. White, Ema Spencer, and the Newark Camera Club</i>. Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (organizer) (August 1-December 13, 2020).",
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                "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1980.176-group-portrait"
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                "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. <em>Catalogue of Photography</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.",
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