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Bert Williams

Date: 1921
Description: White Studio portrait of vaudevillian Bert Williams.
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"Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye"

Date: 1950
Description: Scene still from "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye."
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Orson Welles

Date: 1975
Description: A classic Orson Welles publicity still showing him looking intensely into the camera while gesturing with his hands.
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Fredric March as a Child

Date: 1900
Description: A photograph of Fredric March as a child (on the right) performing in a church pageant with another child.
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Frederic March on Fraternity House Steps

Date: 1920
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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Scene Still from The Twins of Suffering Creek

Date: 1920
Description: Scene still from The Twins of Suffering Creek a western starring William Russell. He is posed with Malcolm Cripe and Helen Stone as the twins (Fox 1...
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Hale Hamilton and Louise Lovely in "Johnny on the Spot"

Date: 1919
Description: Scene still from "Johnny on the Spot" with Hale Hamilton and Louise Lovely (Metro, 1919).
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William Farnum in "Last of the Duanes"

Date: 1919
Description: William Farnum and a little girl in a scene still from "Last of the Duanes," a silent film based upon a Zane Grey story (Fox, 1919).
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"The Poverty Of Riches" Scene Still

Date: 1921
Description: Tom Donaldson (played by John Bowers) is dressing with the help of his wife Grace (Louise Lovely) in a scene still from "The Poverty of Riches" (Goldwyn 19...
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"In Dahomey" Stars

Date: 1902
Description: George Walker, Adah Overton Walker, and Bert Williams link arms and dance the cakewalk in the first Broadway musical to be written and performed by African...
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Ziegfield Follies

Date: 1912
Description: Bert Williams (right) and Leon Errol (left) are a cabbie and his fare from the 1912 Ziegfield Follies. The cab is drawn by a rumpled pantomime horse. Behin...
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Scene Still from A Girl of Yesterday

Date: 1915
Description: Donald Crisp, aviator Glenn Martin, and Mary Pickford in the 1915 silent comedy A Girl of Yesterday (Famous Players-Lasky, 1915). Martin is wearing ...
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Tracy Takes Off

Date: 1932
Description: Spencer Tracy in "Sky Devils," Howard Hughes's silly World War I comedy. Tracy (center) and William Boyd play two inept stowaways who end up on a ship that...
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"Dive Bomber" Helmet

Date: 1941
Description: A publicity still of Fred MacMurray from "Dive Bomber" (WB, 1941) in which a crew member is adjusting the helmet of MacMurray's pressurized flight suit. Be...
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Marine Flyers Publicity Still

Date: 1935
Description: A publicity still from "Devil Dogs of the Air," (Warner Brothers 1935) in which Milwaukee-born Pat O'Brien appeared with Jimmy Cagney. In this production, ...
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The Great Train Robbery

Date: 1903
Description: Robbers, guns drawn, escort the engineer from the locomotive in a scene from The Great Train Robbery.
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Production Still from The Immigrant

Date: 1917
Description: The huge waiter (played by Eric Campbell) glowers at the immigrant (Charlie Chaplin). To the right are Edna Purviance playing another immigrant and Henry B...
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Alex Haley and Kunte Kinte's Grave

Date: 1978
Description: Author Alex Haley and actor LeVar Burton visit the grave of Haley's ancestor, the slave Kunte Kinte, in Spottsylvania County, Virginia. In the television ...
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Still of "Roots" Mini-Series

Date: 1976
Description: Scene from the popular television mini-series "Roots," showing actor LeVar Burton in chains portraying the slave Kunte Kinte, who had recently arrived on a...
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Still from "Roots" Television Mini-Series

Date: 1976
Description: Actors Ben Vereen (left), as Chicken George, and Georg Stanford Brown as Tom, in a television still from the popular 1977 television mini-series "Roots". T...

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