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"Dixie Pashas 1861"

Randy Bond - 13May10 7:06PM


Several months before the first shots of the American Civil War were fired, two cotton planters from South Carolina tour the wonders of Egypt with their wives. A local photographer snaps their photograph as a souvenir to take back home to a soon to be divided nation. Ironically during the war, Egyptian cotton would replace that of the American South as the staple for the English textile mills of Manchester.

Figures from Set 325 and Set 118


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1. Randy Bond - 14May10 3:18AM


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2. Randy Bond - 14May10 3:19AM


Framed and Matted Version

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