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Jersey City)

Carte d'Amerique divisees en ses principales parties

exhibiting eleven pictures at the Athenaeum in 1829 and eight in 1830

Choris worked extensively in pastels and documented the Ohlone people in the missions of San Francisco

although he was acquitted of all but one charge

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