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A postcard showing Fern Tree Gully in the Blue Mountains

Postcard with painting of 'THE BLUE MOUNTAINS / FERN TREE GULLY / NSW' by A.H. Fullwood; Ralph Tuck and Sons' 'Wide-Wide-World' series of Oilettes.

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National Museum of Australia

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