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| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | White Studio portrait of vaudevillian Bert Williams. |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini in chains and ropes. He is tied to a wheel on a locomotive. |
| Date: | 10 28 1947 |
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| Description: | Several members of the screenwriters and directors known as the "Hollywood Ten," together with members of their families at a demonstration before their im... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Frederic March as Freddy Bickel, photographed on the steps of his fraternity house when he was president of the 1920 senior class. |
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| Description: | Ed Wynn, in makeup for "Manhattan Mary," plays checkers with George White. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Candid shot of Fred Coe, producer of "Playwrights '56," sitting at his production board. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Howard Hughes, looking every inch the millionaire playboy, with his U.S. Army Boeing pursuit plane. Hughes had rebuilt the plane in order to increase its s... |
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| Description: | Howard Hughes - aviation-obsessed motion picture producer, millionaire playboy, and aircraft business leader - seated in the cockpit of his airplane after ... |
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| Description: | Herbert Biberman, one of the blacklisted Hollywood Ten who were jailed for failure to testify to the House Un-American Activities Committee about Communist... |
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| Description: | Four members of the Hollywood Ten at an unidentified event concerning their defense. From left to right are: Herbert Biberman, Alvah Bessie, and Dalton Tr... |
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| Description: | Samuel Goldwyn and Edna Ferber pose together wearing fashionable attire. |
| Date: | 04 20 1922 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "A pause in the day's occupation--'Dick' Barthelmess's muscles are called more in to play in this work than in making a round of the eig... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini, the well-known escape artist, was born in Budapest, Hungary and raised in Appleton, Wisconsin. At the time of his immigration his name was s... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length publicity portrait of renowned escape artist Harry Houdini. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of the renowned escape artist Harry Houdini. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Harry and Bess (Beatrice) Houdini in formal attire, the year of his death from acute appendicitis. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini, world famous escape artist who spent his boyhood in Appleton, Wisconsin, sitting in a chair wrapped in chains in a scene from the silent fil... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini in a scene from the silent motion picture, "The Grim Game." |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Franklin J. Schnaffner, director of "The Boys from Brazil" (Fox, 1978). Schnaffner is looking through the viewfinder of a Panaflex camera. |
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