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  • Left: autochrome of the actress Matsumoto Tome dressed as a geisha in Kyoto, Japan, 1912; right: autochrome of a condemned man, perhaps a soldier, punished by cangue in Urga (Ulaanbaatar), Mongolia, 1913
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