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Doris Platt on WHA-TV
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Doris Platt at the WHA-TV station displaying artifacts during the broadcast of Scandinavian Backbone, part of her series of 1959 television shows. Edward Crawley is the WHA cameraman. Another person is standing on a ladder in the background on the right.
March 25, 1959
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