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| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for Champion reaping and mowing machines manufactured by the Champion Machine Company. The cover features a color illustra... |
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| Description: | One man armed with a shotgun, facing a man in the doorway of a log house, and surrounded by three other men standing in the snow. |
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| Description: | One man armed with a shotgun, facing a man in the doorway of a log house, and surrounded by four other men standing in the snow, also a horse and sleigh. |
| Date: | 03 24 1970 |
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| Description: | Cover of "The East Village Other," an underground newspaper, featuring a cartoon bomb on top of a pile of money. The headline reads, "Booming the Economy."... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Hatchet probably used in slayings of Mamah Borthwick, her children, and others at Taliesin by Julian Carlton. Taliesin is located in the vicinity of Spring... |
| Date: | 11 1972 |
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| Description: | Polemical political poster advocating Karl Armstrong for District Attorney of Wisconsin. Text reads, "We will be free. We see the AMRC blast as more than j... |
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| Description: | Copy photograph of a Native American/Sioux man posed standing outdoors, holding a feathered spear and wearing a large bonnet. He is standing next to a hors... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a statue of Captain Myles Standish, a military leader of the Plymouth Colony. Begun in 1892, the statue depicts Standish grasping his sword in... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | View of base of the Oerlikon anti-aircraft gun in a factory, possibly International Harvester's Indianapolis Works. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Oerlikon anti-aircraft gun on display. A sign on the right identifies it as a 20mm anti-aircraft gun manufactured by the Pontiac Motor Division. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Group of men, some with shovels and axes, setting up a gun on a artillery range. A large group of men in the background are setting up more guns. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Marines running to climb aboard a truck after coupling a 75-mm gun. |
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| Description: | A view of members of the Yaqui tribe after the execution of six men in Guaymas Mexico. Caption reads: "Yaquis after the execution, Guaymas, Mexico." |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | The actress Nell Craig holds a revolver on Ernest Maupain while Richard Travers looks on in a scene still from the 1916 Essanay film "In a Looking Glass." |
| Date: | 04 23 1986 |
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| Description: | This image was captured during the re-enactment of a crime that took place at a convenience store on Tuesday, April 22nd, 1986. The killing of Andrew N. Ne... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising Emile de Antonio's 1967 documentary film "Rush to Judgment," about the Warren Commission's investigation into the assassination of Presi... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Sitting on a table in a filthy cellar, Prudence Thorne (played by Billie Burke) compares knives with a Chinaman as four other thugs watch in a scene still ... |
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| Description: | Waukesha police recruits practice using riot sticks. |
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| Description: | Actor Neville Brand, director Don Siegel, and another actor joke around on the set of the film "Riot in Cell Block 11." Brand holds Siegel as the other act... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Actress Mary Meade is threatened by the shadow of a revolver in a publicity still for the 1947 Eagle-Lion release "T-Men." Pinned to the wall behind her by... |
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