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Scene from "Time for Tomorrow"

Date: 1955
Description: Women, as well as men, can find a rewarding career in hospital pharmacy, as depicted here in a shot from "Time for Tomorrow", a film produced by the Americ...
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Still from "Time for Tomorrow"

Date: 1955
Description: A professor checks a prescription prepared by a pharmacy student in this lab scene from "Time for Tomorrow". Women, as well as men, can find a rewarding ca...
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Edison Movie Projector

Date: 10 19 1931
Description: Edison kinetascope, patented in 1897, one of the first motion picture projectors invented by Thomas A. Edison. It is hand cranked and chain driven.
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Toledo Scale Outside Theater

Date: 01 31 1931
Description: Toledo scale outside Strand Theatre, 16 E. Mifflin Street. "Your weight free" advertising the movie "Reducing." On the right is a poster for the movie "Pai...
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Filming of "Romance of the Reaper" at Walnut Grove

Date: 1930
Description: Film crew setting up a scene in which actors playing the parts of Cyrus McCormick and his slave Jo Anderson operate a replica of McCormick's reaper of 183...
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"Romance of the Reaper" Demonstration Scene

Date: 1930
Description: Still from the feature length motion picuture "Romance of the Reaper" showing a recreation of the demonstration of Cyrus McCormick's reaper of 1831 at Waln...
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"Romance of the Reaper" Film Still

Date: 1929
Description: Scene from the film "Romance of the Reaper" showing the building of the first practical reaper on the McCormick farm in Virginia. Actors playing the parts ...
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Construction of a Reaper on Film Set

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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Working on Reaper on Film Set

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...
Poster

"Romance of the Reaper" Poster

Date: 1931
Description: Advertising poster for the "Romance of the Reaper" film for use in Australia. The poster features an illustration of Cyrus Hall McCormick building the firs...
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Production still for "Destination Moon"

Date: 1950
Description: Cast and crew of the 1950 science fiction film "Destination Moon" are on a lunar set including one leg of a gigantic spacecraft. Facing out, Lionel Lindon,...
Poster

"Obraz lāsky" (Image of Love) Film Poster

Date: 1966
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster for the English film "Image of Love." Mona Lisa wears a pink wig, and a flower, lips, small hearts and a chart are pasted on to...
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"Destination Moon" scene still with John Archer.

Date: 1950
Description: Actor John Archer is in the spaceship interior set of "Destination Moon." He walks carefully in a pair of boots with suction cups and holds another pair i...
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"Destination Moon" production still.

Date: 1950
Description: Two actors in space suits and suction cup boots work on the exterior of a spaceship in a production still for "Destination Moon." Behind them is a black sk...
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"Destination Moon" production still.

Date: 1950
Description: An actor in a space suit "floats" in front of a background of stars. Below him is a safety net and a technician watching on the right.
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Production still for "Destination Moon."

Date: 1950
Description: In a production still for "Destination Moon," an astronaut in a space suit is floating away from the spaceship. Two of his companions stand on the hull of ...
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John Archer and Tom Powers in "Destination Moon" scene still.

Date: 1950
Description: Actors John Archer (left) and Tom Powers (right) pose in the set for the interior of a spacecraft. Powers is buckled into a padded bunk.
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Lunar scene still for "Destination Moon."

Date: 1950
Description: Three space suited astronauts stand on the lunar surface against a background of stars in a scene still for "Destination Moon."
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Lunar scene still for "Destination Moon."

Date: 1950
Description: An astronaut in a spacesuit carries some stiff laundry on the surface of the moon in scene still for "Destination Moon." On his belt are a flashlight, an a...
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Two astronauts in a "Destination Moon" production still.

Date: 1950
Description: Two astronauts in spacesuits unload equipment from their spaceship onto the surface of the moon. One has camera equipment including an 8mm Bolex motion pic...

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