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Florence Lawrence in a Lozier Automobile

Date: 1912
Description: A publicity still of Victor Film Company silent film star Florence Lawrence driving a Lozier open touring car with 1912 Pennsylvania license plates.
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Gaston Glass in his New Car

Date: 1922
Description: French-born silent film actor Gaston Glass at the wheel of a touring car with a spare tire mounted on the running board. Glass later became an assistant di...
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Mary Miles Minter and James Kirkwood

Date: 08 16 1916
Description: The fifteen-year-old silent film actress Mary Miles Minter stands beside a two-seat roadster automobile looking at the director James Kirkwood sitting at t...
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Sun Bathing

Date: 1965
Description: Women sun bathe near an express highway in Milwaukee.
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The Absent-Minded Professor

Date: 
Description: Still photograph of Nancy Allen and Fred MacMurray riding through the clouds in his Flubber powered Model T.
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Polishing the Chrome

Date: 09 14 1987
Description: A man polishes his 12-cylinder Lincoln Coupe as part of a classic car show at Rank & Son Buick-GMC Truck.
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Man Washing his Suzuki Motorcycle

Date: 04 05 1984
Description: Corky Barker washing down his motorcycle in front of his home at 2734 South Superior Street.
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"Taxi" Scene Still

Date: 1919
Description: Night-time scene still from the Triangle silent film "Taxi," featuring Taylor Holmes (playing Robert Hervey Randolph) leaning on his taxi.
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Albert E. Smith, Antonio Moreno, and a Small Racing Car

Date: 1920
Description: Albert E. Smith, one of the founders of the Vitagraph motion picture company, stands with a cigar in his mouth looking down at the silent film star Antonio...
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Corinne Griffith in "The Adventure Shop"

Date: 1919
Description: The actress Corinne Griffith posing with an English bulldog and an open one seat runabout automobile in a publicity still for the silent film "The Adventur...
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Late Night Car Wash

Date: 01 20 1987
Description: Self-service car wash at Slattery's Amoco Service Station. A late evening customer takes advantage of a break in the normal January temperatures to wash r...
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Pearl White and George Vaux Bacon

Date: 1915
Description: Silent film star Pearl White behind the wheel of a 1915 Stutz Bearcat roadster with journalist George Vaux Bacon sitting beside her. The photograph was mad...
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Theodore Roberts, Mary MacLaren, and Wallace Reid in "Across the Continent"

Date: 1922
Description: John Dent (played by Theodore Roberts) greets Louise Fowler (Mary MacLaren) and his son Jimmy Dent (Wallace Reid) after they have won a transcontinental au...
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Marguerite Clark scene still with automobile.

Date: 1917
Description: Bab Archibald (played by Marguerite Clark) washes a very muddy automobile that appears to be an Overland open touring car in this scene still for "Bab's Bu...
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Marguerite Clark scene still washing an automobile.

Date: 1917
Description: Bab Archibald (played by Marguerite Clark) washes a very muddy automobile that appears to be an Overland open touring car in this scene still for "Bab's Bu...
Poster

"Los hipocritas" (The Hypocrites) Film Poster

Date: 1965
Description: Argentine film poster. Photographic collage of different images from scenes in the film featuring various characters. Most of the men are wearing suits, an...
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Kids Drawing

Date: 05 02 1964
Description: Sitting on the school lawn, students draw Highway 51, Marathon Mill, Rib mountain and the Wisconsin River.
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Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in "Casablanca"

Date: 1943
Description: Humphrey Bogart (playing Rick Blaine) faces Ingrid Bergman (as Ilsa Lund) in a scene still from "Casablanca" (Warner 1942). This tender moment is from the ...
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Billie West and W.H. Brown in "Above Par"

Date: 1915
Description: The Wall Street broker Mr. Berry (played by W.H. Brown) and his daughter (Billie West, wearing a hat with a white veil) sit in the back of a chauffeured op...
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Scene Still from "Yvonne from Paris"

Date: 1919
Description: Yvonne Halbert (played by Mary Miles Minter) and Lawrence Bartlett (Alan Forrest) make pains to ignore each other as they sit side-by-side in the back of a...

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