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Hunting Party with Badger, Loire Valley, France

c. 1850
daguerreotype, quarter plate

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

In the mid-1800s in France, badger hunting was a working-class sport, popular among farm workers and villagers.

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