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CORE Picketers

Date: 01 14 1964
Description: Civil rights group CORE picketing the Board of Realtors at Coach House Motor Inn for fairness and equality in housing.
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Filming of "The African Queen"

Date: 1951
Description: The crew resting on the set of the 1951 film "The African Queen." Katharine Hepburn, holding an umbrella, is standing and talking to someone in the center ...
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Boat from "The African Queen"

Date: 1951
Description: Cast and crew of the 1951 film "The African Queen" on a boat, preparing to film a scene. They are floating on a body of water, with trees behind them. Acto...
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Filming a Scene for "The African Queen"

Date: 1951
Description: Crew, in foreground, filming a scene for the 1951 film "The African Queen." Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn are in a boat with a microphone over thei...
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Ida Lupino

Date: 1949
Description: Director Ida Lupino sitting in a chair, getting her foot bandaged by an unknown man on the outdoors set of the 1949 film "Never Fear." A foot cast is next ...
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Keefe Brasselle, Ida Lupino, and Sally Forest

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Description: Director Ida Lupino is standing behind actors Keefe Brasselle and Sally Forest. Brasselle and Forest are sitting at a table with Lupino bending over them. ...
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Scene with Sheep from "Blockade"

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Description: Elevated view of a herd of sheep surrounding a film crew, including director William Dieterle, as they are filming a scene from the 1938 film "Blockade." A...
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Googie Withers, Griffith Jones, and Glynis Johns

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Description: Actors Googie Withers, Griffith Jones and Glynis Johns filming a scene from the 1948 film "Miranda." Withers is sitting in a chair with a newspaper, Jones ...
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Glynis Johns and David Tomlinson

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Description: Actors Glynis Johns and David Tomlinson, and the film crew, waiting to film an outdoor scene from the 1948 film "Miranda." Men are around a movie camera in...
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Ruby Dee and Jackie Robinson

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Description: Actors Ruby Dee and Jackie Robinson outdoors filming a scene from "The Jackie Robinson Story." Dee is getting makeup applied or touched up, probably by mak...
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Jean Simmons

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Description: Jeans Simmons with film crew, preparing to film a scene from the 1948 film "Hamlet." Ms. Simmons is in the process of lying down in a creek, to reenact the...
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Laurence Olivier

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Description: Director and actor Laurence Olivier preparing to film Ophelia's drowning scene from the 1949 film "Hamlet." He is standing next to a movie camera wearing w...
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Don Ameche

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Description: Actor Don Ameche sitting on the set of the 1948 film "Sleep, My Love." A light and movie camera are in the foreground.
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Filming "Men at Annapolis"

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Description: A film crew for the Ziv television show "Men of Annapolis" stand behind and below a camera. A group of naval cadets in uniform can be seen marching in form...

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