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| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Robert Rauschenberg makes cyanotype art by shining a light over a nude female model who is lying on photosensitive blueprint paper. The print was to be use... |
| Date: | 01 16 1946 |
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| Description: | On the first day of their strike against the Cudahy Company, picketing workers in New York City permit the loading of cartons of ham and bacon for city hos... |
| Date: | 09 03 1955 |
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| Description: | Mamie Till Bradley, the mother of Emmett Till, weeps during his funeral. The 14-year-old Till was murdered while visiting relatives in Mississippi for alle... |
| Date: | 05 05 1949 |
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| Description: | Several days before the Berlin Blockade was to be lifted, Russian authorities permitted this West Berlin couple to purchase potatoes in the eastern sector.... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Portrait of screenwriter Anita Loos with braided hair by Apeda Studio of New York. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | The writer Anita Loos and the director John Emerson looking over a script on a film set. Emerson has a pince-nez on a cord and sits in a director's chair. ... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | An early full-length publicity portrait of Valeska Suratt in an interesting pose: arms straight out, palms down, as if she were warming by a fire. She wear... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Full-length publicity photograph of Valeska Surrat. Valeska Surrat, standing beside a mirror, wears a crinoline dress decorated with artificial grapes. ... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | An early full-length publicity portrait of Valeska Suratt posed in the "Egyptian" style. She wears an intricate dress decorated with metallic ribbons and a... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Portrait photograph of Louise Fazenda wearing a large floppy hat when she acted for the Joker Comedy unit at Universal. The handwritten caption at the b... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Doña Sol de Guevara (played by Nita Naldi) relaxes smoking a cigarette on a divan as her male servant plays the lute in the 1922 Famous Players-Lasky produ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Louise Vale holding roses, by the White Studio of New York. She was a silent film actress who died from the Spanish Flu in M... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Full-length publicity portrait of Irene Castle in a tripping pose for Irving Berlin's 1914 Broadway musical Watch Your Step. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Full-length publicity portrait of Irene Castle posed in a studio in front of a painted backdrop. She looking over her shoulder at the camera and is wearing... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of Triangle films star Olive Thomas wearing a light-colored suit and holding a Pekinese dog under her arm. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Marshall Neilan, the director of Don't Ever Marry (1920), and Marjorie Daw, the female lead. Original caption: "NIX ON THE FANCY FOOD, SAYS MARSHA... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Mazie Trumbull, famous as a cross-dresser and dancer, and her sister Frances, side by side in a White Studio photograph. |
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| Description: | President Harry Truman meets a packed room full of reporters. Merriman Smith, the "dean of the White House correspondents and the donor of this image," can... |
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| Description: | A town scene featuring the blacksmith shop and horses. |
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