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Night photograph of a fireworks display on dark open ground. A bright white-hot burst of sparks in red, green and white rises from a pile of fireworks, with smoke drifting around it. In the left foreground a dark silhouetted figure stands watching, and several figures in white clothing stand blurred in the background near a street lamp. Scattered spent debris lies on the ground. Watermarked archive photo.

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