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Colour pictures of Oxford in the early days of Summer, 1924...

“The trees are coming into leaf, like something almost being said…”

from The Trees, Philip Larkin

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Pictures (c) Musee Albert-Kahn.

For more of Albert Kahn’s images, see David Okuefuna’s “The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn“.