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Syd Chaplin

Date: 1915
Description: Syd Chaplin at the periscope in a scene still from A Submarine Pirate (Keystone).
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...
Photograph

Madison Theater Guild's "The Hasty Heart"

Date: 01 02 1949
Description: Conrad Harris, St. Louis, in his role as Blossom in Madison Theater Guild's production of "The Hasty Heart." Also included is a second negative of a portra...
Photograph

Testing an 1831 Reaper Replica

Date: 1929
Description: A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape...
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Man in Period Costume for "Romance of the Reaper"

Date: 1929
Description: A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape...
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Fredric March

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Description: Fredric March (seated) with Florence Eldridge (Mrs. March) and the noted news analyst Cecil Brown.
Photograph

Film Still from "The Clodhopper"

Date: 1917
Description: Film still of two men standing outdoors looking at a newspaper. A horse is tethered behind them.
Photograph

Film Still from "The Boss of the Lazy 'Y'"

Date: 1918
Description: Actress Josie Sedgwick as Betty Clayton and six other men, some with guns, holed up in a ranch house, shooting toward a window. One of the men stands with ...
Photograph

Film Still from "The Boss of the Lazy 'Y'"

Date: 1918
Description: Group of four men and one woman outdoors at a ranch setting. One man has blood from a likely gunshot wound on his forearm.
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Women in Costume

Date: 
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a woman posing sitting on the left wearing a false moustache, uniform jacket and hat, and a woman wearing...
Photograph

Alexander Strakosch

Date: 1886
Description: Quarter-length oval-framed studio portrait of Hungarian-born actor Alexander Strakosch (1845-1909). Following his noted acting career, Strakosch was a prof...
Poster

The Halls of Ivy

Date: 1954
Description: The poster features a photograph of Ronald Colman and Benita Hume, and text that reads: "International Harvester brings you The Halls of Ivy Starrin...
Photograph

Scene from Play

Date: 1905
Description: In a scene from a play, a woman is lying on the stage floor with her eyes closed. Two men in military uniforms, one brandishing a sword, are standing over ...
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Tableau

Date: 1905
Description: Three young women and five young men, three of whom are in military uniform, are posing in a scene from a play. There is patriotic bunting hanging from the...
Photograph

"The Mistletoe Bough"

Date: 1885
Description: Group portrait of four men and four women, all in costume. One woman is dressed in a bridal gown. Caption reads: "'The Mistletoe Bough' 1885. Mary R. Brigh...
Photograph

Jim Ameche

Date: 02 24 1943
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of radio actor Jim Ameche. The image was used for a newspaper advertisement. Caption reads: "Jim Ameche, The MANHATTAN STORY Te...
Photograph

Jim Ameche

Date: 07 03 1938
Description: Waist-up portrait of radio actor Jim Ameche, who is holding a sheet of paper and standing behind an NBC microphone.

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