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Hardly Was He Half-Way up the Rope than They Heard Footsteps
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Frank E. Schoonover
(American, 1877 - 1972)
Hardly Was He Half-Way up the Rope than They Heard Footsteps
Wash and pencil on paper
1916
28 1/2 × 14 in. (72.4 × 35.6 cm)
78.12
Purchased with the Museum Volunteers’ Fund, 1978
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