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"title": "The Year in Review for 1989",
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"title": "Industry and Photography: Selections from the Permanent Collection",
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"title": "Drawn with Light: Pioneering French Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Drawn with Light: Pioneering French Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 26-June 16, 2005).",
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"title": "France in the Time of Manet and Morisot",
"description": "France in the Time of Manet and Morisot. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 10-August 23, 2026).",
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"description": "CMA, Feb. 6 - April 15, 1990: \"Year in Review 1989,\" CMA Bulletin, 77 (Feb. 1990), p. 69, no. 57, repr. p. 61.",
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"description": "Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; 11/16/97 - 3/1/98. \"Industry and Photography: Selections from the Permanent Collection.\"",
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"did_you_know": "One of the major monuments of Paris, the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris was built in the 1100s, renovated in the 1700s, and in need of restoration by the 1800s.",
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"description": "When the popularity of Victor Hugo\u2019s novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame drew attention to the church, the state hired architect and preservationist Eug\u00e8ne Viollet-le-Duc to restore it. His renovation, which lasted from 1844 to 1864, modified the cathedral: he added the spire, gargoyles, and griffins. Charles Soulier shows us the church\u2019s front and some of the surrounding neighborhood, bustling with carriages and new construction.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.",
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