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Bert Williams

Date: 1921
Description: White Studio portrait of vaudevillian Bert Williams.
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Sailor in Comedian Act

Date: 01 17 1944
Description: Navy sailor standing at a microphone performing a comedy act.
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Clyde Cook in Costume

Date: 11 27 1931
Description: Copy photograph of Actor Clyde Cook in costume, for the RKO Orpheum Theatre, with a signature that reads "Blosey, Chicago."
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Jewish Comedy Act

Date: 11 21 1930
Description: Indoor portrait of two men in hats and tail coats. Taken for Albert Comisky.
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"Haystacks and Steeples" Scene

Date: 1916
Description: Gloria Swanson and Bobby Vernon in a scene from "Haystacks and Steeples".
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Roscoe Arbuckle

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Description: Undated portrait of Roscoe Arbuckle, autographed as follows: Very Truly Yours, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle P.S. TO HELL WITH THE KAISER.
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Stanley Holloway and Alec Guiness in The Lavender Hill Mob

Date: 1951
Description: Publicity still of Stanley Holloway (playing Alfred Pendlebury) and Alec Guiness (Henry Holland) contemplating a souvenir Eiffel Tower paperweight in Charl...
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Block and Sully, Vaudeville Team

Date: 1940
Description: Promotional trick photograph of the husband and wife vaudeville team Block and Sully (Jesse Block and Eva Sully). She holds his severed head by the hair, a...
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Weber and Fields and a butler in a scene still

Date: 1915
Description: Joe Weber, left, watches as Lew Fields hands a butler his overcoat in a publicity still used to promote the 1915 Keystone comedy "The Best of Enemies."
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Max Davidson, publicity portrait

Date: 02 21 1927
Description: Head and shoulders star head publicity photograph of comedian Max Davidson in suit and necktie.

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