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| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Author Alex Haley autographing a copy of his best selling book, Roots, during a visit to Spottsylvania County, Virginia, where his ancestor Kunte Ki... |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Author Alex Haley and actor LeVar Burton visit the grave of Haley's ancestor, the slave Kunte Kinte, in Spottsylvania County, Virginia. In the television ... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Scene still with Sandro Panseri, as Domenico Cantoni, a young clerk being chastised by his boss, in Ermanno Olmi's Il Posto (The Sound of Trumpets, ... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length publicity portrait of renowned escape artist Harry Houdini. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of the renowned escape artist Harry Houdini. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Harry and Bess (Beatrice) Houdini in formal attire, the year of his death from acute appendicitis. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini, world famous escape artist who spent his boyhood in Appleton, Wisconsin, sitting in a chair wrapped in chains in a scene from the silent fil... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini in a scene from the silent motion picture, "The Grim Game." |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Movie still from the United Artists movie "Patterns," featuring Van Heflin (playing Fred Staples) and Everett Sloane (playing Mr. Ramsey). |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Movie still from the Twentieth Century-Fox movie "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit," featuring Gregory Peck (playing Tom Rath). He is smoking a cigarette a... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Extensive promotional exhibit in front of an unidentified New York theater for the 1938 Universal film "The Crime of Doctor Hallet" starring Ralph Bellamy.... |
| Date: | 07 31 1959 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 06 11 1959 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 06 18 1959 |
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| 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.... |
| Date: | 06 13 1928 |
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| Description: | Director Nick Grinde (in two-tone shoes) and 15 members of his film crew pose for a MGM production still. Present are a woman playing the harmonium (far le... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Iris Champneys (played by Dorothy Dalton) comes up behind Clement Gaunt (Milton Sills) apparently to sneak a small money bag into the pocket of his corduro... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | At least fifteen actors wearing formal evening wear pose in the drawing room of a mansion in this scene still for the silent film "Anna Ascends." In the fi... |
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