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American Film Company Studio

Date: 1916
Description: General view of the American Film Company studio located at State Street and Mission Street in Santa Barbara, California. The American Film Company, also k...
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Studio publicity portrait of Alfred Paget

Date: 1916
Description: Head and shoulders studio publicity portrait of Fine Arts Film Company actor Alfred Paget.
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Dixieland Theatre

Date: 1916
Description: The Dixieland Theatre in South Jacksonville, Florida, before it was converted by the Gaumont Company into a film studio.
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Eclair Company

Date: 1913
Description: An outdoor studio used by the Eclair American Company while making silent films. Shown are four or five actors in a restaurant set on a low platform covere...
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Punch Pressing Handles

Date: 11 27 1967
Description: A machinist running a punch press at Res Manufacturing Company.
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Portrait of Vola Vale

Date: 1917
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of Vola Vale, silent film actress who was a leading ingenue for the Balboa Amusement Producing Company.
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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.
Poster

Poster for Morris Brothers' Opera House Minstrels

Date: 1857
Description: Black and white lithograph on paper. Title over image of minstrel company. Inserts of Lon and Billy Morris, left and right. Large image of man papering sto...
Poster

Poster for "Mrs. Bridget O'Brien, esq"

Date: 1892
Description: Color lithograph poster. The caption running across the top is "Frank Sanger's Company supporting John F. Sheridan." The image shows Sheridan, cross-dresse...
Drawing

"Rainbow Warrior II" Blueprint

Date: 06 09 1986
Description: A blueprint prepared for Emile de Antonio by the de Pavloff Company in San Francisco. The blueprint is a rendering of "Rainbow Warrior II," a proposed nava...
Postcard

Miss Billie Burke

Date: 1907
Description: An embossed color postcard with two head and shoulders portraits of Billie Burke produced by the Philco Publishing Company of London, England. Caption read...
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Mabel Trunnelle Holding a Goat

Date: 1917
Description: Mabel Trunnelle, player in Edison Company silent films from 1909, is dressed in a white sailor's suit and straw hat and holds a young goat.
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Hill's Fur Coat Department

Date: 08 05 1935
Description: Hill's Dry Goods Company, 202 State Street, fur coat department, showing racks of fur coats.
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Power

Date: 1950
Description: Aerial view of a hydroelectric power plant owned by Northern States Power Company located on the Chippewa River. A highway bridge and a railroad bridge spa...
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Studio publicity still of comedian Billy Quirk

Date: 1912
Description: Publicity still of silent film comedian Billy Quirk used to announce his engagement with the Solax Film Company in 1912.
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Actress Florence Lawrence in a head and shoulders studio portrait

Date: 1908
Description: Head and shoulders studio portrait of Florence Lawrence from about the time she joined the Mutoscope and Biograph Company in 1908. She looks up to the left...
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The Eastern Stock players of the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company

Date: 1911
Description: Group portrait of the Essanay Eastern Stock Company in Chicago, Illinois, 1911: Top row, left to right: Joseph Dailey, F. Doolittle, Inez Callahan, Willia...
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Electronic Voltametric Apparatus

Date: 08 27 1982
Description: Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. provides an opportunity for a university engineering student to have hands-on experience and instruction from a company re...
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Florence Lawrence

Date: 1910
Description: Silent film actress Florence Lawrence in costume as a gypsy.
Drawing

The Pleasure of His company costume sketch

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Description: Costume design sketch for the 1961 film The Pleasure of His Company. The sketch is of a floor length pink negligee for the character "Katharine 'Ka...

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