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Graves are hard to dig in the rock of the high Bolivian Andes and the dead are buried in the cubicles of mausoeums like this on the ledges of which behind the grating mourners place floral offerings
Graves are hard to dig in the rock of the high Bolivian Andes and the dead are buried in the cubicles of mausoeums like this on the ledges of which behind the grating mourners place floral offerings

Graves are hard to dig in the rock of the high Bolivian Andes and the dead are buried in the cubicles of mausoeums like this on the ledges of which behind the grating mourners place floral offerings

Date8/11/1945
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Original Toronto Star caption: Graves are hard to dig in the rock of the high Bolivian Andes and the dead are buried in the cubicles of mausoeums like this on the ledges of which behind the grating mourners place floral offerings.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0116829F
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