Photograph Collections

Overview of Records

Repository: Providence Archives, Seattle, WA

Date: c. 1938-1994

Abstract: Photographs document the facilities, personnel, and activities of Providence Alaska Medical Center and its staff.

2287 items; 4 ½ linear feet

Administrative Information

Restrictions:

Providence Archives is a private repository; access to some records is at the discretion of the archivist.

Preferred Citation:

[Description or number of cited item].  (160) Providence Alaska Medical Center Photograph Collection, Providence Archives, Seattle, Washington.

Accession Information:

These photographs were transferred to the Archives from the hospital and from sisters who worked there over a period of years.

Processing Information:

Photographs were added over the years by Archives staff; the collection awaits final processing.  A typed inventory was created and the collection re-housed in August 2002 by Peter Schmid, who did the final processing and created this finding aid in March 2007.

SERIES A: FACILITIES

A1 Building 1 (1939-62)

Dates: 1939; 1942; 1947; 1949; 1952; 1954; 1957; 1962; 1966; 1968; n.d.
64 items
Black-and-white and color prints

Includes photographs removed from scrapbook, “Providence in the Apostolate.”

A2 Building 1 (1939-62)—Aerial Views

Dates: 1939; n.d.
7 items
Black-and-white prints

Includes photographs removed from scrapbook, “Providence in the Apostolate.”

A3 Building 1 (1939-62)—Building Site

Dates: n.d.
3 items
Black-and-white prints

A4 Goose Lake Campus (1962-    )

Dates: 1962-63; 1965; 1970; 1972; 1976; 1981; 1983; n.d.
36 items
Black-and-white and color prints

A5 Goose Lake Campus (1962-    )—Aerial Views

Dates: 1962; 1964; 1967; 1970; 1976; 1980; 1988; n.d.
17 items

A6 Gardens & Grounds

Dates: 1949; 1957; 1993; n.d.
44 items
Black-and-white and color prints

A7 Child Center

Dates: n.d.
4 items
Color prints

A8 Convent

Dates: 1969-70; 1989; 1996; 1971; n.d.
12 items
Black-and-white and color prints

A9 Providence House

Dates: 1983; n.d.
14 items
Color prints

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SERIES B: PERSONNEL

B1 Administrator: Sr. Stanislaus of Jesus (1938-41)

Dates: 1955
1 item
Black-and-white print

B2 Administrator: Sr. Mary of Nazareth Corcoran (1953-58)

Dates: 1958
1 item
Black-and-white print

B3 Administrator: Sr. Elizabeth Clare Tyrell (1959-62)

Dates: n.d.
1 item
Black-and-white print

B4 Administrator: Sr. Barbara Ellen Lundberg (1962-70)

Dates: 1970; n.d.
7 items
Black-and-white print

B4a Administrator: Sr. Evelyn Bergamini (1970-76)

Dates: 1970-76; n.d.
60 items
Black-and-white and color prints

Includes photographs removed from Accession 94:22, a photo album presented to Sr. Evelyn upon her retirement in 1976.

B5 Administrator: Al Comosso (1976-88)

Dates: 1979; 1982-83; n.d.
8 items (including 2 items with negatives only)
Black-and-white and color prints

B6 Advisory Board

Dates: 1971; 1974; 1978; n.d.
5 items (see also items with negative only)
Black-and-white prints

B7 Clergy

Dates: 1938; 1940; 1942; 1948-50; 1957; 1959; n.d.
19 items
Black-and-white and color prints

B8 Lay Employees

Dates: 1945; 1973-74; 1981; 1987; n.d.
38 items (see also negatives)
Black-and-white and color prints

B9 Medical Staff

Dates: 1941; 1957; 1973; n.d.
15 items (see also negatives)
Black-and-white prints

B10 Sisters

Dates: 1939; 1941-46; 1948; 1951; 1956; 1958-60; 1962-73; 1975; 1977; 1979; 1982; 1986-87;  1989; 1991; 1993; 1996; n.d.
144 items (inlcuding 8 items with negatives only)
Black-and-white and color prints

Includes photographs removed from scrapbook, “Providence in the Apostolate.”

B11 Sisters of St. Ann

Dates: 1957; 1965; 1968-69; n.d.
9 items

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SERIES C: DEPARTMENTS

C1 Admitting

Dates: 1957; n.d.
2 items

C2 Auxiliary

Dates: 1957-58; 1971-72; 1981; n.d.
51 items (including 26 items with negatives only)

Includes banquet given for Auxiliary members in honor of the 75th anniversary of the sisters in Alaska, and of the contributions of the “Pink Ladies.”

C3 Blood Bank

Dates: 1957; 1959; n.d.
4 items

C4 Business Office

Dates: 1957; 1972; n.d.
12 items (see also negatives)

C5 Cancer Therapy Center

Dates: 1980-81; n.d.
8 items

C6 Cardiac Care

Dates: n.d.
4 items

C6a Center for Educational Development

Dates: n.d.
1 item

C7 Central Supply

Dates: 1957; 1972
5 items (including 2 with negatives only)

C8  Chapel

Dates: 1939; 1942; 1946; 1950-51; 1956; 1969; 1971; 1983; 1993; n.d.
41 items

C9  Critical Care

Dates: 1979; n.d.
2 items

C10 Cafeteria (Employees)

Dates: 1971
1 item

C11 Dietary

Dates: 1957; 1971; 1988; n.d.
6 items (see also negatives only)

C12 EEG

Dates: n.d.
1 item

C13 Emergency

Dates: n.d.
5 items

C14 Gift Shop

Dates: 1971; n.d.
2 items

C15 Guild

Dates: 1967; n.d.
4 items

C16 Home Health Care

Dates: 1988
1 item

C17 Information Desk

Dates: n.d.
1 item

C18 Intensive Care

Dates: n.d.
1 item

C19 Laboratory

Dates: 1957
2 items

C20 Laundry

Dates: 1957; n.d.
3 items

C21 Maternity

Dates: 1970-71; 1994; n.d.
8 items

C22 Newborn Special Care

Dates: n.d.
4 items

C23 Nursery

Dates: 1954; 1957-59; n.d.
20 items

C24 Nursing Services

Dates: 1957; 1972-73; n.d.
9 items (see also negatives)

C25 Operating Room

Dates: 1954; n.d.
2 items

C26 Orthopedics

Dates: 1973; n.d.
2 items

C27 Pastoral Care

Dates: 1966; 1971; 1989; n.d.
7 items

C28 Patients

Dates: 1954-57; 1959; 1963; 1965-66; 1973; 1981; n.d.
25 items (1 item with negative only)

C29 Pediatrics

Dates: 1957-58; 1969; 1974; 1987; n.d
23 items (including 6 items with negatives only)

Includes visit of Disney characters.

C30 Physical Therapy

Dates: 1957; n.d.
3 items

C31 Providence House

Dates: 1983; n.d.
6 items

C32 Radiology

Dates: 1957; 1971; n.d.
18 items (see also negatives)

C33 Reception

Dates: 1971
1 item

C34 Rehabilitation

Dates: n.d.
3 items

C35 Respiratory Therapy

Dates: n.d.
2 items

C36 Surgery

Dates: 1928; 1974; n.d.
17 items (see also negatives)

C37 Thermal Unit

Dates: n.d.
7 items

C38 St. Mary Residence

Dates: 1963
3 items

C39 Switchboard

Dates: 1974
2 items (negatives only)

C40 Poison Control Center

Date: 1974
(negatives only)

C41 Ambulatory Treatment Center

Dates: n.d.
(negatives only)

C42 Endocrine Institute

Dates: n.d.
(negatives only)

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SERIES D: SUBJECTS

D1 Air Transport

Dates: 1980; 1987; n.d.
19 items
Black-and-white and color prints

Includes Life Guard Alaska plane.

D2 Alaska Native Service Hospital

Dates: 1956; n.d.
15 items
Black-and-white prints

D2a Alaska Nurses Association

Dates: 1957
6 items
Black-and-white prints

D3 Alaska State Hospital Association

Dates: 1955-57; 1969
7 items
Black-and-white and color prints

D4 Ambulance & Funeral Car

Dates: 1941; n.d.
3 items
Black-and-white prints

D5 Anchorage

Dates: 1956; 1963; n.d.
16 items
Black-and-white and photomechanical prints

Includes photographs removed from scrapbook, “Providence in the Apostolate.”

D6 Apartment Building

Dates: n.d.
2 items
Black-and-white prints

D7 Apostolic Delegation

Dates: 1964; 1968
8 items
Black-and-white and color prints

D8 Bear

Dates: 1938
1 item
Black-and-white print

D9 Bishop George Theodore Boileau (SJ)—Consecration

Dates: 1964
1 item
Black-and-white print

D10 Bishop Joseph Raphael Crimont (SJ)

Dates: n.d.
2 items
Black-and-white prints

D11 Bishop Robert Dermot O’Flanagan—Consecration

Dates: 1951
1 item
Black-and-white print

D11a Cancer Society

Dates: 1957
4 items
Black-and-white prints

D12 Car

Dates: 1948
1 item
Black-and-white print

D13 Cardinal Cody

Dates: n.d.
1 item
Black-and-white print

D14 Cardinal Francis Joseph Spellman

Dates: 1941; 1954-55; n.d.
14 items
Black-and-white prints

D15 Cathedral of the Nativity (Juneau)

Dates: 1951
7 items
Black-and-white prints

D16 Chamber of Commerce Meeting

Dates: 1957
2 items
Black-and-white prints

D17 Christmas

Dates: 1955-56; 1968; n.d.
20 items (including 4 items with negative only)
Black-and-white and color prints

D18 Circus

Dates: 1954
10 items
Black-and-white prints

Alaska’s first three-ring circus was the Baily-Christiani troupe which visited in July. Some of the performers came into the hospital.

D19 City Clean-Up

Dates: 1957
5 items
Black-and-white prints

Photographs show what appears to be the purposeful burning of a small structure.

D20 Clamming

Dates: 1966-67
37 items (including 3 items with negative only)
Black-and-white and color prints

D21 Closing of the Convent

Dates: 2003
1 item
Color print

D22 Groundbreaking—Cobalt Machine

Dates: 1968
5 items
Color prints

D23 Construction—Building 1

Dates: 1938-39
78 items
Black-and-white prints

D24 Construction—Building 2

Dates: 1960-62
168 items (including 2 items with negative only)
Black-and-white and color prints

D25 Construction—Providence Professional Building

Dates: 1970
9 items
Black-and-white and color prints

D26 Construction—North Tower

Dates: 1974; n.d.
2 items (see also negatives)
Black-and-white prints

D27 Construction—Project 90

Dates: n.d.
8 items
Black-and-white prints

D28 Copper Valley School

Dates: 1965-66
1 item
Black-and-white print

Some of the lay volunteers at Copper Valley School, 170 miles east of Anchorage on 462 acres of federal land. The boarding school was started by Bishop Francis Gleeson, SJ.

 D29 Cornerstone Blessing—Building 1

Dates: 1938
20 items
Black-and-white prints

D30 Cornerstone Opening

Dates: 1976
7 items
Black-and-white prints

D30a Cornerstone Blessing

Dates: 1976
1 item
Black-and-white print

D31 Cornerstone Removal

Dates: 1969
2 items
Color prints

Removing the cornerstone from the 1939 building.

D32 Crab Apple Tree

Dates: 1969
1 item
Color print

D33 Crowded Conditions

Dates: 1957
7 items
Black-and-white prints

Photographs taken to show crowded conditions and need for new facility.

D34 Dedication—North Tower

Dates: 1976
15 items (see also negatives)
Black-and-white prints

D35 Diesel Generator

Dates: 1954
1 item
Black-and-white print

D36 Dedication—Building 1

Dates: 1939
1 item
Black-and-white print

Reproduction of the dedication invitation.

D36a Dog

Dates: n.d.
1 item
Black-and-white print

D37 Eielson Air Force Base

Dates: n.d.
6 items
Black-and-white and color prints

D38 Elmendorf Air Force Base

Dates: 1957
3 items
Black-and-white prints

Sisters attended a mother-daughter breakfast there.

D39 Emergencies

Dates: n.d.
4 items
Color prints

Paramedics and fire department personnel responding to emergencies.

D40 Employee Picnic

Dates: 1966-67; 1977; n.d.
50 items
Black-and-white and color prints

D41 Entertainment

Dates: n.d.
5 items
Black-and-white prints

An unidentified theatrical production.

D42 Equipment Sale

Dates: 1969
4 items
Color prints

Sale of surplus beds, etc.

D43 Expansion Plans

Dates: 1970; 1972; n.d.
13 items (including 3 items with negatives only)
Black-and-white prints

Sisters looking over drawing with architects, and copies of architectural elevations. Also opening of sealed bids on 6-6-1972 (negatives only).

D44 Expansion Announcement

Dates: 1969
6 items
Black-and-white prints

Press conference announcing expansion.

D45 Fever Cabinet

Dates: n.d.
2 items
Black-and-white prints

D46 Fifi D’Orsay

Dates: 1957
2 items
Color prints

Vaudeville and film star from Montreal visiting the hospital.

D47 Film Projector

Dates: 1962
1 item
Black-and-white print

Projector donated by the Loyal Order of Moose.

D48 Fire Drill

Dates: n.d.
6 items
Black-and-white prints

D49 Fishing

Dates: 1963
4 items
Color prints

Sr. Barbara Ellen Lundsberg on a fishing trip with friends.

D50 Fourth of July Parade

Dates: 1955
9 items
Black-and-white prints

Parade passed in front of the hospital.

D51 Good Friday Earthquake

Dates: 1964
45 items (including 2 items with negative only)
Black-and-white prints

D52 Groundbreaking—Goose Lake Site

Dates: 1960
2 items
Black-and-white and color prints

D53 Groundbreaking—Unidentified

Dates: n.d.
2 items
Black-and-white prints

D54 Groundbreaking—North Tower

Dates: 1973
8 items
Black-and-white prints

D55 Groundbreaking—Providence House [?]

Dates: n.d.
1 item
Black-and-white print

D56 Groundbreaking—Project 90

Dates: 1983
4 items
Black-and-white prints

D57 Helicopter

Dates: 1962; 1967; 1972; 1976; n.d.
19 items
Black-and-white and color prints

D58 Holy Family Church

Dates: n.d.
3 items
Black-and-white prints; printed item

D59 Hospital Week

Dates: 1957-58; 1967; n.d.
21 items
Black-and-white and color prints

D60 Ice Throne (Chena River)

Dates: n.d.
1 item
Black-and-white print

D61 Iditarod

Dates: n.d.
2 items
Black-and-white prints

D62 Incubator

Dates: n.d.
1 item
Black-and-white print

Incubator being unloaded from military vehicle. Probably during move to the new hospital in 1962.

D63 Jubilees

Dates: 1969
2 items
Color prints

D64 Ladd Air Force Base

Dates: 1958
1 item
Black-and-white print

D65 Lobby

Dates: 1941; 1988; n.d.
4 items
Black-and-white and color prints

D66 Mayor Hewitt V. Lounsbury

Dates: 1959
6 items
Black-and-white prints

The mayor with new 49-star flag on the occasion of Alaska’s statehood.

D67 Medical Equipment

Dates: 1969; 1973; n.d.
25 items (including 18 items with negatives only)
Black-and-white and color prints

Includes installation of a Cobalt machine for radiation therapy.

D68 Medical Social Service

Dates: 1957
1 item
Color print

Sign promoting the service, which helps with discharge planning, patient and family counseling, and serves as a liaison to community services.

D69 Miscellaneous Early Foundation Photographs

Dates: 1939
31 items
Black-and-white prints

Photographs showing the land upon which the hospital would be built, neighbors and friends of the sisters.

D70 Moose

Dates: 1966
9 items
Color prints

A moose shot and dressed by the assistant engineer and plumber.

D71 Mother Gamelin Portrait

Dates: 1981
1 item
The portrait was uveiled on May 31.

D72 Mother Joseph Statue

Dates: 1982
49 items
Black-and-white and color prints

Unveiling and dedication of the one quarter size version of sculptor Felix de Weldon's original statue for Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol.

D73 Move to New Hospital

Dates: 1962
36 items (including 34 items with negatives only)

D74 Native Dancers

Dates: 1957
13 items
Black-and-white prints

Eskimos from King Island and Little Diomede Island in a performance arranged by the Business and Professional Women’s Club.

D75 Nurses Retreat Day

Dates: 1967; n.d.
4 items
Black-and-white and color prints

D76 Opening & Preview—North Wing

Dates: 1976
28 items (see also negatives)
Black-and-white prints

Photographs show guests touring departments and seeing new equipment, unveiling of the August (“Augie”) Reetz Memorial and the Bernie Kosinski Memorial.

D77 Opening & Preview—Providence Professional Building

Dates: 1971
1 item
Black-and-white print

D78 Our Lady of Sorrows Statue

Dates: 1957; n.d.
3 items (including 1 item with negative only)
Black-and-white prints and color negative

The marble bust, which was damaged in the 1964 Good Friday Earthquake, is part of the artifact collections of Providence Archives.

D79 Outings

Dates: 1943; 1947; 1959; 1967-69; 1972; 1993; n.d.
51 items
Black-and-white & color prints

Sisters on picnics and visiting various sites, including the Shrine of St. Therese in Juneau.

D80 Paintings by Sydney Laurence

Dates: 1957; 1976; n.d.
9 items
Black-and-white & color prints

Artwork by the Alaska artist was donated to the hospital.

D81 Panning for Gold

Dates: 1957
5 items
Color prints

Sisters who went to Anchorage to teach Religious Vacation School went on a picnic where they panned for gold.

D81a Patient Services Brochure Photographs

Dates: 1971
24 items (negatives only)
Medium format negatives

Photographs donated by photographer Dolores D. Roguszka in April of 2002 (Accession 2002:44). Topics include medical staff; sisters; chapel; employees’ cafeteria; pastoral care; volunteers; radiology; gift shop; and nursery. Some of these negatives match prints in the various sub-series.

D82 Pope John Paul II Visit

Dates: 1981
39 items
Black-and-white and color prints

Preparations for visit and Mass given by the Pope during his visit to Alaska. Includes a photograph of Sr. Claire Gagnon receiving communion from the Pope.

D83 Pope Pius XII

Dates: n.d.
1 item
Black-and-white print

D84 Providence Health Care Fund Lecture

Dates: 1985
1 item
Color print

D85 St. Michael Church (Palmer)

Dates: 1947; 1959
3 items
Black-and-white and color prints

D86 Sacred Heart Church (Seward)

Dates: n.d.
1 item
Black-and-white print

D87 Sculpture by John Svenson

Dates: 1980
2 items
Black-and-white and color prints

Sculpture commissioned to recognize the Anchorage community’s financial support in building the North Tower (dedicated in 1976), the sculpture shows scenes blending the history of Alaska and the sisters’ presence there. Dedicated February 25, 1980.

D88 Bicentennial Celebration

Dates: 1975
2 items
Black-and-white prints

The hospital had a booth at the celebration in downtown Anchorage. Since 1976 was the Bicentennial year, this was presumably a “kick-off” event for the year culminating July 4, 1976.

D89 Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of Sisters of Providence in Alaska

Dates: 1977
12 items
Black-and-white prints

Mass and reception, and Governor Jay Hammond signing proclamation designating 1977 as Sisters of Providence Year in Alaska.

D90 Shrine

Dates: 1955; 1962; 1965; 1967; n.d.
16 items
Black-and-white and color prints

Includes blessing of the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in 1955.

D91 Solange Chapel

Dates: 1976
5 items
Black-and-white prints

Group, including Sr. Solange, standing outside the chapel named for her.

D92 Therese Neumann Cloth

Dates: n.d.
1 item
Black-and-white print

Photograph of a cloth stained with blood from the stigmata of Therese Neumann, a Bavarian woman who began experiencing the wounds during Lent of 1926.

D93 Travel

Dates: 1944-45; n.d.
7 items
Black-and-white prints

Various photographs of sisters traveling by airplane.

D94 Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Hospital

Dates: 1965
4 items
Color prints

Sisters and employees celebrate twenty-five years in Anchorage with a tea.

D95 Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of Alaska Statehood

Dates: 1983
10 items
Color prints

A parade in which the sisters have a float, and are dressed in traditional habit.

D96 United Service Organization—National Catholic Community Service

Dates: 1955; 1957; n.d.
7 items
Black-and-white prints

Includes and entertainment and the opening of the new USO—NCCS in 1957.

D97 Warehouse

Dates: n.d.
1 item
Color print

Government surplus warehouse purchased by Sr. Benedict Joseph in 1957.

D98 Zonta Club

Dates: n.d.
1 item
Black-and-white print

A Zonta club reception. The organization was begun in 1919 to encourage women’s professional and leadership skills.

D99 “Gold Rush” Meeting

Date: 1973
5 items (negatives only)

D100 “Coffee Conference”

Date: 1972
7 items (negatives only)

D101 Children’s Group Story Time

Date: 1973
4 items (negatives only)

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SERIES E: POSTCARDS

E1 Building 1 (1939-62)

15 items
Black-and-white

E2 Goose Lake Campus (1962-    )

6 items
Color

E3 Memorial Garden

1 item
Color

E4 Anchorage

3 items
Black-and-white

E5 Alaskiana

4 items
Black-and-white

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SERIES F: SLIDES

F1 Sisters

Dates: 1955; 1959; 1964; 1977; n.d.
20 items

F2 Physicians

Dates: 1956
1 item

F3 Emergency Room

Dates: 1955
1 item

F4 Celebrations & Holidays

Dates: 1956; 1965; n.d.
13 items

F5 Building

Dates: n.d.
5 items

F6 Grounds

Dates: n.d.
1 item

F7 Helicopter

Dates: 1964
4 items

F8 Skiing

Dates: 1960; n.d.
3 items

F9 Copy Slides of Images in the Collection

1 item

F10 Visit of Pope John Paul II

Dates: 1981
158 items

F11 Pastoral Care

Dates: n.d.
1 item

F12 Brother Francis Shelter

Dates: 1985
2 items

F13 Senior Meals Program

Dates: 1985
2 items

F14 Cornerstone

Dates: 1963
5 items

F15 Groundbreaking—Goose Lake Site

Dates: 1960
10 items

F16 Business Office

Dates: 1964
1 item

F17 Move to New Hospital

Dates: 1962
3 items

F18 Dietary

Dates: 1964
2 items

F19 Nursery

Dates: 1964
2 items

F20 Pharmacy

Dates: 1964
1 item

F21 Good Friday Earthquake

Dates: 1964
23 items

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SERIES G: TRANSPARENCIES

G1 Building

Dates: 1968; 1971; 1975
5 items

G2 Move to New Hospital

Dates: 1962
10 items

G3 Water Damage

Dates: 1962
7 items

Damage from broken pipe valve in hallway between pharmacy and       doctors’ lounge. Note on slide box: “Leak had been reported to contractor several times—Mel Brown & Bob Bauer.”

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SERIES H: ALBUMS & SCRAPBOOKS

H1 Scrapbook 1

Dates: 1965; 1967; 1969-70; n.d.
30 items
Black-and-white & color prints

Forms part of Accession 1991:180. Includes Auxiliary functions; Alaska Cobalt Center opening; farewell for Sr. Barbara Ellen Lundberg.

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SERIES I: OVERSIZE

I1 Building 1 (1939-62)

Dates: n.d.
2 items

I2 Building 1 (1939-62)—Aerial Views

Dates: n.d.
1 item

I3 Goose Lake Campus (1962-)

Dates: n.d.
2 items

I4 Goose Lake Campus (1962-)—Aerial Views

Dates: n.d.
2 items

I5 Advisory Board

Dates: n.d.
1 item

I6 Clergy

Dates: 1975
1 item

I7 Sisters

Dates: n.d.
1 item

I8 Nursery

Dates: n.d.
1 item

I9 Radiology

Dates: n.d.
1 item

I10 Alaskiana

Dates: n.d.
2 items

I11 Groundbreaking—Goose Lake Site

Dates: 1960
1 item

I12 Expansion Plans

Dates: n.d.
1 item

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