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Walter Lawrance Papers
Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library
11-1-1954
Benthal Deposits (1954)
Walter A. Lawrance
Bates College
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Walter A. Lawrance Androscoggin River Studies Annual Report, November, 1954, Series I: Androscoggin River 1940-1983, Subseries
I: Androscoggin River Studies, Box 2, Folder 2, Walter A. Lawrance Papers, Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections
Library, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine.
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