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Richard Lightburn Sutton

Born  1878
Died  1952

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American dermatologist, 1878-1952.

Biography of Richard Lightburn Sutton

Bibliography

  • An Arctic safari, with camera and rifle in the land of the midnight sun... With more than one hundred illustrations, made from photographs taken by the author and by Richard L. Sutton, jr.,...
    St. Louis, The C.V. Mosby co., 1932.

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