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Dalton Trumbo

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Description: Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, seated at a typewriter.
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W.C. Fields in "Poppy"

Date: 1923
Description: W.C. Fields in a publicity still from the Broadway show "Poppy". He is seated in an ornate chair and is wearing a top hat, checkered pants and spats.
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"Citizen Kane" Production Still

Date: 1941
Description: Production still during the filming of "Citizen Kane." Orson Wells smokes a pipe and directs Dorothy Comingore (playing Susan Alexander Kane) from a wheel...
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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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Portrait of Harry Houdini

Date: 1919
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of the renowned escape artist Harry Houdini.
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Houdini in Chains

Date: 1919
Description: Harry Houdini in a scene from the silent motion picture, "The Grim Game."
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Two Astronauts

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Description: Two astronauts cling to the back of a rocket. The image is from the television show Men Into Space.
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Scene from Men Into Space

Date: 07 31 1959
Description: William Lundigan, as Colonel Ed McCauley, and Ross Elliott as Dr. George Batton, stand on the lunar landscape set of the television show Men Into Space. Th...
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Nancy Gates on Men Into Space

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Description: Nancy Gates, who plays Renza Hale on an episode of the television show Men Into Space, is shown in a spacesuit and helmet on the lunar landscape set...
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Astronauts on the Moon

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Description: Four astronauts, including Colonel Ed McCauley, played by William Lundigan, struggle with oxygen tanks. They are on the lunar landscape set of the televisi...
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Astronaut with Space Ship

Date: 06 11 1959
Description: An actor, dressed as an astronaut, is seen on the lunar landscape set of the television show Men Into Space. He is standing near the leg of a huge s...
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Astronauts on Men Into Space

Date: 06 18 1959
Description: Two actors, dressed as astronauts, are seen on the set of the television show Men Into Space. The two look like they are trying to repair something....
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Buster Keaton and Joe Roberts in a scene still

Date: 1922
Description: The blacksmith's assistant (played by Buster Keaton) files his nails as his employer (Joe Roberts) looms over him in a scene still from the 1922 silent com...

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