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Ziegfield Follies

Date: 1912
Description: Bert Williams (right) and Leon Errol (left) are a cabbie and his fare from the 1912 Ziegfield Follies. The cab is drawn by a rumpled pantomime horse. Behin...
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Hell's Angels Scene

Date: 1930
Description: Scene at Caddo Field during the filming of "Hell's Angels," Howard Hughes' extravagant World War I aviation film. In this scene, the large vintage Gotha b...
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Rudolph Valentino with Voisin Car

Date: 1923
Description: Rudolph Valentino and his wife Natacha Rambova pose with their Voisin automobile.
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Agnes Moorehead

Date: 1904
Description: Agnes Moorehead is shown at about 4 years of age sitting in a handsome wicker baby carriage outdoors.
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Gaston Glass in his New Car

Date: 1922
Description: French-born silent film actor Gaston Glass at the wheel of a touring car with a spare tire mounted on the running board. Glass later became an assistant di...
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Fred Stone in an Early Automobile.

Date: 1905
Description: Comic actor Fred Stone holding the tiller of an early two-seat runabout. The automobile may be a Woods Electric or Woods Dual Power. Stone had been a circu...
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Houdini in Chains

Date: 1922
Description: Harry Houdini, the well-known escape artist, was born in Budapest, Hungary and raised in Appleton, Wisconsin. At the time of his immigration his name was s...
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New Amsterdam Theatre

Date: 1925
Description: Front view of the New Amsterdam Theatre (Theater), which advertises the 1925 Ziegfield Follies on its marquee and on street level the play "The Knife in th...
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Rear Projection

Date: 1951
Description: Production still showing the technique of rear projection. A 1951 Ford, jacked up in front so the steering wheel can turn, sits in front of a rear projecti...
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John Gilbert's House

Date: 1925
Description: Exterior view of actor John Gilbert's Spanish-style house at 1400 Tower Grove Road. There is a tower on the hill in the background.
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Edith Storey, Ambulance Driver

Date: 05 1919
Description: "For months Miss Storey has been driving a war ambulance in the streets of New York--a work no less valuable than handling one behind the Flanders lines. A...
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Wallace Reid and Dorothy Davenport in an automobile, publicity still

Date: 1913
Description: Publicity still from 1913 heavily retouched for the July 7, 1928, issue of Liberty (magazine). The original caption reads: "Wallace Reid and Dorothy Davenp...
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Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, and an unknown actor in a scene still

Date: 1922
Description: Buster Keaton hoists a Model T engine from a wrecked car as Virginia Fox flirts with an unidentified actor in a scene still for the 1922 comedy short "The ...
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"Porgy and Bess" Production Still

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Description: Production still from the film "Porgy and Bess." Porgy (Sidney Poitier) kneels on his cart which is pulled by a goat. He passes a group of men playing dice...
Poster

"El reñidero" (The Cockpit) Film Poster

Date: 1965
Description: Argentine film poster. Illustrated image of two men fighting in the street with knives. They are both wearing hats and suits.
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"Un muchacho como yo" (A Boy Like Me) Film Poster

Date: 1968
Description: Argentine film poster. Partially photographic and partially illustrated image of a man driving an older model car, with two other men and two women riding ...
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"Los hipocritas" (The Hypocrites) Film Poster

Date: 1965
Description: Argentine film poster. Photographic collage of different images from scenes in the film featuring various characters. Most of the men are wearing suits, an...
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The Absent-Minded Professor

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Description: Still photograph of Nancy Allen and Fred MacMurray riding through the clouds in his Flubber powered Model T.
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Daniel J. Travanti

Date: 1958
Description: Daniel J. Travanti smiles as he stands outside on a lawn. He is wearing a suit with a flower pinned to his lapel and is dressed up for his high school grad...
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"His Wedding Night"

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Description: Fatty Arbuckle siting on a car fender holding Alice Mann in a still from the short film "His Wedding Night." Al St. John is lying on the ground under the c...

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