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1929 Dublin Parade - Images of Our Past

Posted by Scott B. Thompson, Sr. March 22, 2016

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1929 Parade, Daughters of the American Revolution

Left to Right - Lester Porter, Dorothy Smith, George Thompson, unknown.

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