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David Octavius Hill|Robert Adamson|Hill and Adamson

[Officer of the 92nd Gordon Highlanders Reading to the Troops, Edinburgh Castle]

April 9, 1846
Salted paper print from paper negative
14.5 × 19.2 cm (5.7 × 7.6 in)

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