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| Description: | Lobby card for the 1925 film "The Street of Forgotten Men". An older woman, sitting and wearing a nice dress and hat, is grabbing the arm of a young man st... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph poster. At top, the main banner reads "Blue Jeans" with insert at left "Will Never Wear Out" and another at right "By Joseph Arthur/The Au... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph poster. At top “Hoyt’s "A Trip to Chinatown" with insert at center "From Hoyt's Madison Square Theatre New York" and another insert at rig... |
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| Description: | Plot from the 1956 film The Ten Commandments showing costumes for Moses, Nefretiri, and Rameses II. There are five small drawings of costumes for Mo... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph poster. The image depicts two men fighting near a bridge and raging river. One man has driven the other to the precipice. A caption below ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph poster on paper. The top caption reads: "For fun" and alongside it in larger letters is "Turn to the right." The "i" in Right" is depicted... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Surrounded by a crowd of extras in evening clothes, a police officer (played by Arthur Bauer) holds out a wanted poster reading "Reward $50,000 Charles Bur... |
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| Description: | Costume sketch for Shirley MacLaine's character "Katie Robbins" in the 1961 film All in a Night's Work. The ensemble consists of a brown knee-lengt... |
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| Description: | Shirley Clarke standing on the set of the film "The Cool World." She is standing in a rundown house or apartment and is wearing a scarf and coat and holdin... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A paste-up of a wanted poster created to identify Frank Lambert and his aliases and crimes. A series of 14 poses of Lambert dressed in a suit and hat, smok... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Brigitte Bardot, as Camille Javal, Jack Palance as Jeremy Prokosch, and Giorgia Moll as Francesca Vanini in a scene still from Jean-Luc Godard's Le mépr... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph. Across the top the caption reads "The Colonial Theatre Company Presents" and below that in much larger letters is "Etienne Girardot" foll... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Bare-fisted Gallagher (played by William Desmond) stands in full Western costume (cowboy hat, plaid shirt, bandana neckerchief, charro chaps, leather wrist... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | View from across street towards a group of people, four men and a woman, posing in front of a storefront advertising moving pictures for ten cents. Poster... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of the Thompson Tent Show. A tent, a tall wagon and a truck that runs the generator are set up in a field or park with houses and tre... |
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| Description: | Advertisement for John Trumble's photography studio which, at the time, also included an art gallery and a store for camera supplies and antiques. The post... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc... |
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