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Dickey Chapelle in Vietnam

Date: 11 1964
Description: Dickey Chapelle on the Don Phuc command post, in front of a stack of sandbags, on the Vietnam-Cambodia frontier. Chapelle resided at this post for 34 days,...
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Beach Toss

Date: 08 12 1984
Description: A bikini-clad woman snaps a self-portrait with a long cable release attached to a camera as she is tossed into the air by a group of men on the beach. Othe...
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Video Portraits

Date: 04 02 1987
Description: Three school children are posing for a video camera portrait, one attraction at a school fair sponsored by the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA).
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Vintage Airplanes

Date: 07 27 1988
Description: Vintage aircraft always attract attention. In 1988 on their way to the EAA convention, the national organization of owners of World War II trainers made a ...
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Dickey Chapelle on the USS "Boxer"

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Description: Dickey Chapelle is sitting on the USS "Boxer" with cameras around her neck and luggage at her side.
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"Fred Ott's Sneeze"

Date: 1894
Description: Printing-out-paper contact print of 45 frames of the 5 second film known as "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" or simply "Fred Ott's Sneeze." The fil...
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Production still for "Let's Live a Little"

Date: 1948
Description: Robert Cummings, left foreground with sunglasses in his hand, looks down upon a busy advertising photography studio in 1948 romantic comedy "Let's Live a L...
Poster

"Černý tulipán" (The Black Tulip) Film Poster

Date: 1967
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster for the French film "La tulipe noire." Collage image of a swashbuckler dressed in black and holding a sword while standing in a...
Poster

"Die Nacht began am Morgen" (Morning Departure) Film Poster

Date: 1960
Description: German film poster for the re-release of the British film. Close-up image colored in green of a man's face and another man behind him.
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"Not that You Won or Lost . . ."

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Description: Sid, holding an umbrella and sitting on bleachers outside the Wisconsin Historical Society building. Rain (graphite lines) is annotated on the negative. At...
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Frank Borzage on Set

Date: 1937
Description: Film director Frank Borzage and camera operator Joseph Biroc, along with other members of the film crew, are seen in the reflection of mirrors on the set o...
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Charles Boyer and Jean Arthur on Set

Date: 1937
Description: Charles Boyer and Jean Arthur talk with director Frank Borzage on the set of the 1937 film "History Is Made at Night". Borzage sits in a chair while Boyer ...
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Alex Guinness in Kind Hearts and Coronets

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Description: Image of actor Alec Guinness as Young Henry in the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets. Guinness stands behind a camera as in the film, Young Henry ...

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