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"Romance of the Reaper" Film Still

Date: 1929
Description: Scene from the film "Romance of the Reaper" showing the building of the first practical reaper on the McCormick farm in Virginia. Actors playing the parts ...
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Academy Award-Winning Butcher

Date: 03 11 1956
Description: Actor Ernest Borgnine, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as a butcher in "Marty", reenacted his role for a publicity photograph at a groc...
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Robert Ryan in "God's Little Acre"

Date: 1958
Description: Robert Ryan, as Ty Ty Walden, stands in a large hole he has dug. He looks up to the sky with his arms stretched out. There is a large log propped up agains...
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Alfred Lunt and Threshers

Date: 1942
Description: Alfred Lunt watching as farm workers pitch grain into a thresher on the Ten Chimneys farm. Two men at the end of a chute collect the separated grain in sac...
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"Never Say Quit"

Date: 1919
Description: Reginald Jones (George Walsh) gazing up at Helen Lattimore (Florence Dixon) in a scene from the 1919 film "Never Say Quit." The two are on a yacht, and she...
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"Ramrod" publicity photograph

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Description: Actor Joel McCrea and another man stand with a horse in front of two large mountains. Both men are dressed as cowboys and stand with their hands on their ...

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