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LATF Hipster (9)

By: Joshua Glenn
August 14, 2011

Ninth in a series of posts asking you to look at that forgotten hipster.

Portrait of Toots Thielemans, Adele Girard, and Joe Marsala, Onyx, New York, N.Y., ca. 1948

Via the Library of Congress

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