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Orson Welles

Date: 1975
Description: A classic Orson Welles publicity still showing him looking intensely into the camera while gesturing with his hands.
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Welles as Dreedle

Date: 1970
Description: Orson Welles as General Dreedle in "Catch 22," the film version of Joseph Heller's classic anti-war story about Yossarian, a World War II bombardier desper...
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East High School Latin Department Play Cast

Date: 11 03 1971
Description: East High School Latin Department play cast in a wedding procession on stage.
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Alex Haley and Kunte Kinte's Grave

Date: 1978
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 ...
Photograph

Still of "Roots" Mini-Series

Date: 1976
Description: Scene from the popular television mini-series "Roots," showing actor LeVar Burton in chains portraying the slave Kunte Kinte, who had recently arrived on a...
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Still from "Roots" Television Mini-Series

Date: 1976
Description: Actors Ben Vereen (left), as Chicken George, and Georg Stanford Brown as Tom, in a television still from the popular 1977 television mini-series "Roots". T...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: Dallas News

Date: 07 1971
Description: Cover of "Dallas News," an underground newspaper, featuring a photograph of Groucho Marx and a woman, with the headline, "Groucho calls for Nixon's Assassi...
Poster

"Easy Rider" Movie Poster

Date: 02 1971
Description: Poster advertising for a screening of "Easy Rider" at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Wisconsin Union Theater, Tuesday, February 9, 1971, depicting Pet...
Poster

"A Midsummer Night's Dream" Poster

Date: 04 1971
Description: Poster announcing a performance of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," at Broom Street Theater in Madison, Wisconsin. Performed by the Broom Street ...
Poster

"The Man Who Came to Dinner" Poster

Date: 07 1973
Description: Poster publicizing a performance of "The Man Who Came to Dinner," a comedy by Moss Hart and George Kaufman, held at the Robert Gard Theater in Spring Green...
Photograph

François Truffaut and Jean-Pierre Cargol in L'enfant sauvage (The Wild Child)

Date: 1970
Description: Scene still of François Truffaut, as Dr. Jean Itard, and Jean-Pierre Cargol, as the wild child Victor, in Truffaut's L'enfant sauvage (The Wild Child,
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Maria Schneider and Marlon Brando in Ultimo tango a Parigi (Last Tango in Paris)

Date: 1972
Description: Maria Schneider as Jeanne and Marlon Brando as Paul dancing in Bernardo Bertolucci's Ultimo tango a Parigi (Last Tango in Paris, 1972).
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Brando & Groppi

Date: 1975
Description: Actor Marlon Brando (center) and Father James Groppi of Milwaukee arrive at the Alexian Novitiate in Gresham. The building had been seized by members of th...
Print

"Wild Rovers" Lobby Card

Date: 1971
Description: Lobby card for the 1971 MGM film "Wild Rovers" featuring two men attempting to rope a wild horse in a snowy field.
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Lynn Fontanne, Noel Coward, and Alfred Lunt

Date: 04 19 1970
Description: Lynn Fontanne, Sir Noel Coward, and Alfred Lunt seated at a table in the Pyrenees Restaurant after the Tony Awards presentations at which Lunt and Fontanne...

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