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February 24, 2020

Finishing Touches

An artist touches up the paint on a porcelain figurine before it's refired at a factory in Vienna, Austria. This photograph originally appeared in the June 1951 issue, in an article titled, "Occupied Austria, Outpost of Democracy."

Photograph by VOLKMAR WENTZEL, Nat Geo Image Collection
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