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Scene from "Time for Tomorrow"

Date: 1955
Description: Women, as well as men, can find a rewarding career in hospital pharmacy, as depicted here in a shot from "Time for Tomorrow", a film produced by the Americ...
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Preparing a Negative for Stripping

Date: 03 02 1934
Description: A man in the camera room at the Wisconsin Engraving Company plant, 109 S. Carroll Street, is coating the wet plate negative with rubber and collodion to ma...
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Edison Movie Projector

Date: 10 19 1931
Description: Edison kinetascope, patented in 1897, one of the first motion picture projectors invented by Thomas A. Edison. It is hand cranked and chain driven.
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Toledo Scale Outside Theater

Date: 01 31 1931
Description: Toledo scale outside Strand Theatre, 16 E. Mifflin Street. "Your weight free" advertising the movie "Reducing." On the right is a poster for the movie "Pai...
Book or Pamphlet

Aultman, Miller and Company Advertising Catalog

Date: 1896
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for Aultman, Miller and Company, manufacturers of agricultural equipment. Features a chromolithograph of a woman sit...
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Men Into Space Toys

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Description: Display of toys. On the left is the Colonel McCauley Space Unit, which includes a clear plastic container shaped like a rocket holding action figures. Ther...
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Men Into Space Col. McCauley Helmet

Date: 1960
Description: A young man models the Colonel McCauley space helmet based on the television show Men Into Space.
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Laboratory Scene Still from "The Young Diana"

Date: 1922
Description: A scene still set in Doctor Demetrius's laboratory from the silent film "The Young Diana." Diana May (played by Marion Davies) has just been rejuvenated by...
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"Destination Moon" Still

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Description: Still from the film 1950 film "Destination Moon." The rocket ship is sitting on the lunar landscape.

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