The US: Swamp things.

Also: the Pacific, China, the Philippines, Egypt and Mali.

If you want to get rid of mosquitos, drain the swamp that breeds them, Udo Keppler, 1909, photomechanical print, Library of Congress, Washington DC.

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UNITED STATES. Swamp things.

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