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Costume Party

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Description: Group of Caucasian individuals dressed up as African Americans, in blackface and eating watermelon.
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Gauer & Friends in Costume

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Description: Harold Gauer (wearing a hat, wig, bow tie and smoking a cigar), and three friends, Ed Sachs (who took over the editorship of the Sauk City newspaper), D. R...
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Jackie Coogan in "Peck's Bad Boy"

Date: 1921
Description: Henry Peck, the "bad boy" played by Jackie Coogan, is caught with his hand in the apple barrel by a police officer in this scene still from the silent film...
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"Battle of the Century" Publicity Still

Date: 1927
Description: Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy standing on a sidewalk. They are both looking at a police officer sitting on the sidewalk holding a banana peel. Laurel is hol...

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