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Evidence and Deception: A Historic Photo-Analysis Method for Landscape Studies

Michael W. Seymour and Peter R. Summerlin
Landscape Journal, August 2018, 36 (2) 91-109; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.36.2.91
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