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Gift of Alison Truesdale...granddaughter of Isabel Laughlin."
Photographs, papers, and other family objects donated to the Maine Historical Society. Maine Historical Society Coll. 4161 Laughlin family at Spencer Lake, Maine, Collection Ca. 1909-2019

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