From his hat to his own sister and a friend, Marie-Victorin used a wide variety of "props" to provide a scale showing the real size of the plants in his photographs or to serve as a suitable "backdrop".
Marie-Victorin's sister and a friend standing near a flowering agave plant.
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Leather briefcase with plants.
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Marie-Victorin?s hat on a trunk .
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