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                <text>&lt;div class="collection-head-title"&gt;&lt;a href="https://archives.nypl.org/mss/3622"&gt;AIDS Activist Videotape Collection&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;span class="subtitle"&gt;1985-2000, NY Public Library&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</text>
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