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Family Outside of One-Story House

Date: 1898
Description: Eight people posing in front of a one-story clapboard house holding possessions. The man on the far left is holding a gun and wears a ammunition belt aroun...
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Presidential Campaign Cartoon

Date: 1856
Description: Political cartoon for Presidential Campaign that is Pro-Fremont, anti-Buchanan. John C. Fremont, Republican, and his wife Jessie Benton Fremont, are shown ...
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Mary Pickford in "Caprice"

Date: 1913
Description: Mercy Baxter (played by Mary Pickford) is a mountain girl who has fallen in love with Jack Henderson, a wealthy boy from the city. After his father tells h...
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Film Still of Actress Josie Sedgwick from "The Boss of the Lazy 'Y'"

Date: 1918
Description: Actress Josie Sedgwick plays Betty Clayton in this western. Betty is in charge of the Lazy Y ranch, and she is friendly with Calumet Marston, whose father ...
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Film Still of Actress Josie Sedgwick from "The Boss of the Lazy 'Y'"

Date: 1918
Description: Actress Josie Sedgwick plays Betty Clayton in this western. Betty is in charge of the Lazy Y ranch, and her young brother Bobby lives with her. Her grandfa...
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Film Still of Actress Josie Sedgwick from "The Boss of the Lazy 'Y'"

Date: 1918
Description: Actress Josie Sedgwick as Betty Clayton runs the Lazy Y ranch for Calumet Marston, who is in a feud with Neal Taggart and his father Tom. Betty is with two...
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Film Still from "The Boss of the Lazy 'Y'"

Date: 1918
Description: Actress Josie Sedgwick as Betty Clayton and six other men, some with guns, holed up in a ranch house, shooting toward a window. One of the men stands with ...
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Film Still from "The Boss of the Lazy 'Y'"

Date: 1918
Description: Group of four men and one woman outdoors at a ranch setting. One man has blood from a likely gunshot wound on his forearm.
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"Birth of a Nation" Street Battle

Date: 1915
Description: Street scene from the film "The Birth of a Nation" featuring a battle between soldiers on foot and members of the Ku Klux Klan on horseback. The men on hor...
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Maurice Lefty Flynn and Dorothy Dalton

Date: 1922
Description: Iris Champneys (played by Dorothy Dalton) holds a revolver on Jock MacKeinney (Maurice "Lefty" Flynn) in a publicity still from "The Woman Who Walked Alone...
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Family in Front of Frame House

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Description: Group portrait of men, women and children posing in front of a single-story frame house. The man on the left is holding a shotgun, the man next to him is h...
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Truck with Gun Mount

Date: 1944
Description: Three-quarter view illustration from rear of the left side of a truck, with a gun mount on top of the cab. A shovel and pick are mounted on the side of the...
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Truck with Gun Mount

Date: 1944
Description: Three-quarter view illustration of the front left side of a truck, which has a gun mount on top of the cab. A shovel and pick are mounted on the side of th...
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Edith Storey publicity still for "As the Sun Went Down."

Date: 1919
Description: Edith Storey, in character as the female gunfighter Colonel Billy, aims her Remington revolver from the window of a log building in a publicity still for "...
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Edith Storey publicity still for "As the Sun Went Down."

Date: 1919
Description: Edith Storey, in character as the female gunfighter Colonel Billy, poses with her Remington revolver in the open door of a log building in a publicity stil...
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Man Hunting at Cherokee Marsh

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Description: Photograph of a watercolor painting of a hunter walking in tall grass among trees by the Johnson duck shack at old Cherokee Marsh.
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Publicity Still from "The Cool World"

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Description: A publicity still from the film "The Cool World" showing an African American teenage boy standing next to a large window holding a gun.
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Publicity Still from "The Cool World"

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Description: A publicity still from the film "The Cool World" showing an African American teenage boy holding and pointing a gun. An African American teenage girl is st...
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"Hay Foot, Straw Foot"

Date: 1919
Description: Thaddeus Briggs (Spottiswoode Aitken) is handing his grandson Ulysses S. Grant Briggs (Charles Ray) something in a still for the 1919 film "Hay Foot, Straw...
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The Soldiers of Perrot

Date: 05 08 1927
Description: Actors in a reenactment of a Taking Possession ceremony in which Nicolas Perrot claimed the territory of the upper Mississippi River for France.

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