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Oct 2023
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Life Before Digital Photos: The Last Day...

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On this episode of Our American Stories, Dwayne's Photo in Parson's, Kansas is truly a family affair, and for a while it was an extraordinarily rare family affair...so rare that people from across the globe rushed there to get their kodachrome photos processed before the last chemicals in the world required to do it ran out.

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