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| Description: | Twelve piece brass band playing at a railroad station during the "Union Pacific Preparedness Special Campaign." |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | The glamorous dancer Irene Castle wearing a World War I "Preparedness Uniform" of her own design. The dress was based on the uniform worn by her husband an... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | The huge waiter (played by Eric Campbell) glowers at the immigrant (Charlie Chaplin). To the right are Edna Purviance playing another immigrant and Henry B... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Candid portrait of three men in white t-shirts. Angus Lookaround, in a white hat, is seated, holding a tuba. The men appear to be aboard a ship, possibly t... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of two young Ho-Chunk women posing standing in front of a painted backdrop. They are wearing contemporary dark skirts and light blouses. Id... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Theda Bara, stands and rests an arm against a pillar with one hand on the back of a chair, in a production still from the 1917 Fox production of Cleopat... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | The actors, cameraman, and director discuss the script on location for the silent film "Sunshine Alley" (Goldwyn, 1917). On the right is a Bell & Howell mo... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A water-damaged, thoroughly-retouched publicity still of Richard Barthelmess sitting at a writing desk. It apparently appeared in "Photoplay Magazine" some... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Valda Valkyrien wears a flowing white robe, probably in the role of Ashubetis on the Jacksonville, Florida, set of the 1917 Thanhouser production The Im... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Valda Valkyrien wears a very smart vertically striped dress under a dark double-breasted jacket. Apparently she has just caught a shark on a Florida beach.... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Leaflet urging citizens to consume fewer sweetened beverages. The drawing shows a man and a woman seated at a soda shop. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | World War I United States Food Administration poster showing two soldiers in full gear running through snow with bayonets drawn. Text reads, "Victory is a ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a procession makings its way through the grounds of the Winter Palace at Petrograd (St. Petersburg), Russia. Original caption reads: "'Bat... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A group of men and women gathered inside Pleasant View Rural School to listen to an agricultural extension presentation given by Professor Holden. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | View from the back of a classroom towards a teacher holding an ear of corn while standing near a chalkboard which reads: "Mt. Prospect Twp. High School, Mt... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Group of women, and a few children, seated in a meeting hall at an Agricultural Extension lecture on Home Economics. A woman at the front of the hall is po... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Bob Hildreth (a sculptor played by Frank Mayo) has designs on his student Lois Page (played by Ethel Clayton) in this scene still from "Easy Money." |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Irene Castle in pajamas and sleeping cap enjoying a cantaloupe as part of a posed breakfast in bed with her pet monkey Rastus. This photograph was used to ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Irene Castle in a gauzy tulle and satin dress in a full-length pose in a publicity photograph for the silent film "Patria" (International 1917). |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Movie still from the Artcraft movie "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm," featuring Mary Pickford (playing the title role) goofing off with a parasol. |
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