English: Helen and Margaret Lynch (8 and 7 years old, respectively), photographed at a church procession in their hometown of Bedford Village, New York. The photographs were taken shortly before their deaths, and newspapers reported that the photos were so new, they were blurry as "the film in the camera had not even been developed."
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