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Womenless Wedding

Date: 1927
Description: A womenless group wedding portrait taken in a gymnasium. The large group of men are all dressed theatrically in male and female apparel. Some of the men ar...
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Loraine Garage

Date: 1927
Description: View across street towards the Loraine Garage at 14 N. Fairchild Street. There is a painted sign on the building advertising parking for 50 cents. There ar...
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"Battle of the Century" Publicity Still

Date: 1927
Description: Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel are sitting on a park bench and listening to the insurance agent (Eugene Pallette) as he explains an insurance policy he is tr...
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"Battle of the Century" Publicity Still

Date: 1927
Description: Stan Laurel is signing an insurance policy held by the insurance agent (Eugene Pallette) while Oliver Hardy is looking on. Hardy has ink splashed on his fa...
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"Battle of the Century" Publicity Still

Date: 1927
Description: Oliver Hardy is pointing to Stan Laurel while the insurance agent (Eugene Pallette) looks at Laurel with concern. Laurel is holding his hat in his hand and...
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"Battle of the Century" Publicity Still

Date: 1927
Description: Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy standing on a sidewalk. They are both looking at a police officer sitting on the sidewalk holding a banana peel. Laurel is hol...
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"Battle of the Century" Publicity Still

Date: 1927
Description: Stan Laurel sitting on the sidewalk with one leg in the air. He is holding on to Oliver Hardy's coat. Hardy is holding a banana and is looking down at Laur...
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Turners at Hancock Point

Date: 1927
Description: Caroline Mae Sherwood and Frederick Jackson Turner with their dog at Hancock Point.
Photograph

"Husbands for Rent"

Date: 1927
Description: Sir Reginald Knight (Claude Gillingwater) and another man holding Herbert Willis (Owen Moore) by the arms. Knight is looking angrily at Willis who is weari...
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"London After Midnight"

Date: 1927
Description: Lon Chaney in one of his disguises for the film "London After Midnight." Chaney is wearing sharpened vampire teeth, long hair, and a top hat.
Poster

"The Silent Avenger" Lobby Card

Date: 1927
Description: Lobby card for the film "The Silent Avenger." A man in pajamas and wearing a top hat is sitting on a bed playing a trombone. Thunder the dog is sitting nex...
Photograph

Chevrolet Coupe

Date: 1927
Description: Forest Middleton, sitting in the driver's seat, embracing his wife Leonore who is standing outside the car, leaning against the door of the 1927 Chevrolet ...
Postcard

City Park

Date: 1927
Description: Large group of people gathered in a centrally located park, with a row of shops across the street. There is a gazebo under the trees on the right. Caption ...
Postcard

Madison — YMCA

Date: 1927
Description: View across street towards a five-story corner building with entrances at the front and the side. An electric YMCA sign is near a tree in front. Caption re...
Photograph

Renee Harris

Date: 1927
Description: Renee Harris posing outdoors at her Palm Beach home.
Photograph

Mary Griggs Standing Next to her Pony

Date: 1927
Description: Mary Livingston Burke is sitting on Mary's pony as daughter Mary and two unidentified women are standing alongside. Daughter Mary is wearing a wool coat wi...
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Elevated View of Maid's Quarters and Laundry

Date: 1927
Description: A vertical log house with cedar shake roof, two stone chimneys and two dormers. The house and front lawn are situated among trees.

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