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| Date: | 04 15 1932 |
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| Description: | Comedians Ole Olsen and "Chic" Johnson, called "the mirth provokers of a nation," posing in front of a streetcar that displays an advertisement for their "... |
| Date: | 09 24 1932 |
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| Description: | Snub Pollard, Walter Hiers, and Ben Turpin, about to throw pies at Bjelde's Pie Shop, located at 302 North Francis Street. |
| Date: | 04 16 1932 |
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| Description: | Surrounded by onlookers, Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are riding in a wire cage on the back of a "Federal" brand truck. The truck is on the bed of another "F... |
| Date: | 04 16 1932 |
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| Description: | Ole Olson and Chic Johnson milking cows in front of the Orpheum, 216 State Street, promoting their show "Atrocities of 1932" at the Orpheum. |
| Date: | 04 16 1932 |
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| Description: | Olson & Johnson milking cows in front of the Orpheum Theatre, 216 State Street, promoting their show "Atrocities of 1932." |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, and Stan Laurel in Their First Mistake (MGM 1932). |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Scene still on the set of a Mack Sennett Comedy, probably Those Athletic Girls of 1918. Louise Fazenda does a Russian dance. To the left of her is P... |
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| Description: | Billboard in front of the J.J. McGillivray Sash and Door Factory advertising "That funny old farmer Uncle Josh Spruceby Has made millions laugh. Opera Hous... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | The theatrical Stone family at Chin Chin Ranch. From left to right: Allene Crater (Mrs. Fred Stone), Fred Stone, Dorothy Stone, Carol Stone, and Paula Ston... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Charlie Chaplin, in tuxedo, surrounded by guests in the party scene from "The Adventurer." He is speaking to Marta Golden who holds a feather fan. In the b... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | In this scene still from Chaplin's 1917 silent film "The Adventurer," Eric Campbell, made-up with large eyebrows, beard, and moustache, closely scrutinizes... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Al St. John (at right) and two other actors in a publicity still for "The Alarm," a William Fox production from 1922. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Louise Fazenda holds baby Don Marion who holds a revolver on Eddie Gribbon who is held about the waist by Billy Bevan in a scene still for the Mack Sennett... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | The undertaker Sobini (played by Billy B. Van) struggles for the spaghetti with Dr. Arbutus Budd (Raymond Hitchcock) in a scene still for the silent 1922 c... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Dr. Arbutus Budd (played by Raymond Hitchcock in an aristocratic uniform) appears stunned as Cremo Panatella (Louise Fazenda made up with a large false nos... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | From left to right, grouped around a table in a courtyard in a scene still from the 1922 silent comedy "The Beauty Shop," are the actors James J. Corbett, ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Seated around a table in a dining room, Mary Thurman offers a spoonful of peas to Ford Sterling (at right, dressed as a dandy) while Chester Conklin begs f... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | It is a disastrous day for traveling salesman Bill Henry Jenkins (played by Charles Ray) who has just wrecked his bicycle in a scene still for the silent c... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | In this courtroom scene still for the Keystone silent comedy "Black Eyes and Blue," the judge is played by Jack Henderson. The woman in the black hat is pr... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | The blacksmith's assistant (played by Buster Keaton) files his nails as his employer (Joe Roberts) looms over him in a scene still from the 1922 silent com... |
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