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The group at first lacked expertise in attracting talent and managing its finances, Mr. Hahne recalls.

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Left to right, Freddy Hahne, the arts group's board president; Tomas McCabe, its executive director; Larry Harvey, its chairman; and Harley DuBois, board member of the arts foundation and Burning Man Project.

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While authorities are also looking at Hamburg's harbor-anniversary celebration as a possible source of the outbreak—1.5 million people attended the festivities in the first weekend of May—there hasn't been a proven link to the bean-sprout farm, said Mr. Hahne.

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While authorities are also looking at Hamburg's harbor-anniversary celebration as a possible source of the outbreak—1.5 million people attended the festivities in the first weekend of May—there hasn't been a proven link to the bean-sprout farm, said Mr. Hahne.

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"People complain that we don't make stuff in the U.S., but this creates a whole industry," said Clark Hahne , of Newport CH International LLC, a waste paper exporter in Orange, Calif.

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"This all, in combination with the different clues, makes the chances of this supplier being the source pretty high," said Gert Hahne, spokesman for the ministry.

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A nonprofit organization would better gel with Burning Man's stated principles such as "gifting" and "decommodification," said Freddy Hahne, an artist who journeys to the festival every year under the pseudonym Dr. Really? and is board president of the Black Rock Arts Foundation.

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"This all, in combination with the different clues, makes the chances of this supplier being the source pretty high," said Gert Hahne, spokesman for the ministry.

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After Hahne acquired it, it was first displayed in the Grand Court of the Newark department store, Hahne & Company, where Hahne also arranged for it to be photographed section by section.

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Hahne himself contributed $7,000, and from 1913-62 the painting was housed in a building that was intended to be only a temporary home.

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