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Delay on the cards: Two Canadian vacationers use a sombrero as a card table as they wait to be airlifted home from Cancun recently, following the odyssey-Thomson failures
Delay on the cards: Two Canadian vacationers use a sombrero as a card table as they wait to be airlifted home from Cancun recently, following the odyssey-Thomson failures

Delay on the cards: Two Canadian vacationers use a sombrero as a card table as they wait to be airlifted home from Cancun recently, following the odyssey-Thomson failures

Date4/30/1990
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Original Toronto Star caption: Delay on the cards: Two Canadian vacationers use a sombrero as a card table as they wait to be airlifted home from Cancun recently; following the odyssey-Thomson failures.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0003704F
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