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Meshed Foil Handicrafts

Date: 12 17 1948
Description: Horizontal view of angels and clouds made from meshed foil, created by East Side High School student. The materials were provided by Research Products mate...
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General and Crew

Date: 1942
Description: The four shirtless men in helmets shown with ammunition are a general and his crew of the 14th infantry in Panama.
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"Citizen Kane"

Date: 1941
Description: Orson Welles on podium in front of giant 'Kane' backdrop, in scene still for "Citizen Kane".
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Picket Line Compassion

Date: 01 16 1946
Description: On the first day of their strike against the Cudahy Company, picketing workers in New York City permit the loading of cartons of ham and bacon for city hos...
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Breaking the Blockade

Date: 05 05 1949
Description: Several days before the Berlin Blockade was to be lifted, Russian authorities permitted this West Berlin couple to purchase potatoes in the eastern sector....
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Hollywood Ten: Alvah Bessie

Date: 1947
Description: One of the Hollywood Ten, Alvah Bessie (second from left, holding a cigarette) and others at a luncheon.
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Eight of the Hollywood Ten

Date: 1947
Description: Eight members of the Hollywood Ten at an unidentified event concerning their defense. From left to right are Herbert Biberman, Alvah Bessie, Dalton Trumbo,...
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Free the Hollywood Ten

Date: 10 28 1947
Description: Several members of the screenwriters and directors known as the Hollywood Ten, together with members of their families at a demonstration before their impr...
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Merle Oberon and Melvyn Douglas

Date: 1941
Description: Merle Oberon and Melvyn Douglas in a publicity still for That Uncertain Feeling (United Artists, 1941).
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Burgess Meredith, Merle Oberon, and Melvyn Douglas

Date: 1941
Description: Burgess Meredith, Merle Oberon, and Melvyn Douglas in a publicity still for That Uncertain Feeling (United Artists, 1941).
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Publicity Still from The Wicked Lady

Date: 1945
Description: Margaret Lockwood with pistol drawn and sitting on a horse. She stars as Barbara Worth in the 1945 Gainesborough film The Wicked Lady. The costume d...
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Eduardo Passarelli and Aldo Fabrizi in Roma, Città Aperta (Rome, Open City)

Date: 1945
Description: Scene still of Aldo Fabrizi, as the priest Don Pietro Pellegrini, confronted by a police sergeant, Eduardo Passarelli, in Roberto Rossellini's Roma, cit...
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Dots Johnson and Alfonsino Bovino in Paisà (Paisan)

Date: 1946
Description: The black American soldier Joe (played by Dots Johnson) and the Italian street urchin Pasquale (Alfonsino Bovino) in a publicity still from Roberto Rossell...
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Enzo Staiola and Lomberto Maggiorani in Ladri di biciclette (The Bicycle Thief)

Date: 1948
Description: Enzo Staiola, playing Bruno Ricci, and Lomberto Maggiorani, as his father Antonio, in Vittorio De Sica's Ladri di biciclette (The Bicycle Thief, 194...
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Federico Fellini and Anna Magnani in L'Amore: Due Storie D'Amore (Ways of Love)

Date: 1948
Description: Scene still of Federico Fellini as the stranger and Anna Magnani as Nanni, in the second segment (Il Miracolo) of Roberto Rossellini's L'Amore: Due Stor...
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Silvana Mangano in Riso Amaro (Bitter Rice)

Date: 1949
Description: Scene still of Silvana Mangano, playing Silvana Melega, standing in a flooded rice paddy with two horses in Giuseppe De Santis's Riso Amaro (Bitter Rice...
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Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard in Brief Encounter

Date: 1945
Description: Publicity still of Celia Johnson as Laura Jesson and Trevor Howard as Dr. Alec Harvey in Brief Encounter (1945), directed by David Lean from a play ...
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Michele Morgan, Pierre Blanchar, and Line Noro in La Symphonie Pastorale

Date: 1946
Description: Michele Morgan, as the blind orphan Gertrude, Pierre Blanchar as the pastor, and Line Noro as Amélie in Jean Delannoy's La Symphonie Pastorale (1946...
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"Citizen Kane" Production Still

Date: 1941
Description: Production still during the filming of "Citizen Kane." Orson Wells smokes a pipe and directs Dorothy Comingore (playing Susan Alexander Kane) from a wheel...
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Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale, and Arthur Kennedy in "Desperate Journey"

Date: 1942
Description: Actors Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale, and Arthur Kennedy in a scene from the Warner Brothers' film "Desperate Journey."

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