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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <allfileusages gafcontinue="Balcony_House.jpg|4474" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <pages>
      <page pageid="500" ns="0" title="Cecil Calvert Coursey (1898-1956), Architect" />
      <page pageid="1315" ns="0" title="Henry Ives Cobb (1859-1931), Architect" />
      <page pageid="1540" ns="0" title="Fisher &amp; Lawrie, Architects" />
      <page pageid="1581" ns="0" title="Charles Wurdeman (1871-1961), Architect" />
      <page pageid="2042" ns="0" title="Frederick A. Henninger (1865-1944), Architect" />
      <page pageid="2116" ns="0" title="George Bernhard Prinz (1864-1946), Architect" />
      <page pageid="2520" ns="0" title="Harry Willoughby James Edbrooke (1874-1946), Architect" />
      <page pageid="2626" ns="0" title="Bahr, Vermeer &amp; Haecker, Architects" />
    </pages>
  </query>
</api>