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Block and Sully, Vaudeville Team
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Promotional trick photograph of the husband and wife vaudeville team Block and Sully (Jesse Block and Eva Sully). She holds his severed head by the hair, an effect both ghastly and humorous.
1940
Seymour, Maurice
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WHi 71497
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