Date: | 1914 |
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Description: | Actress Florence Lawrence seated at the vanity mirror in her dressing room wearing a white satin dressing gown and night cap. |
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Description: | Loggers gathered in the bunk house. Boots and socks dry above the stove. |
Date: | 1935 |
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Description: | Circus performer Harriet Hodgini, sits on the gate of a truck helping Otto Griebling, a circus clown, apply his makeup. |
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Description: | A clown in the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus standing outside a tent near a wagon, with his left hand holding onto a tent rope. He is wearing a beret-style hat,... |
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Description: | A group of 11 circus clowns poses with a pretty young female performer in a circus tent. This could possibly be part of a movie set. |
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Description: | A group portrait of Norris & Rowe circus performers outside a tent at winter quarters, including clowns, riders, and high wire performers. |
Date: | 1897 |
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Description: | Post office with man and dog. This was the Louisville Post Office, west of Downsville in the town of Dunn. |
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Description: | A group of children and adults pose in blackface at a Masonic party. |
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Description: | Group of Caucasian individuals dressed up as African Americans, in blackface and eating watermelon. |
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Description: | An African American family, with three children, dressed for cold weather. |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | A dramatic publicity still of Walter Long from the film Birth of a Nation. Long played Gus, a "renegrade negro," in blackface. |
Date: | 1918 |
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Description: | Director D.W. Griffith appears to be adjusting actor Robert Harron's moustache. Original caption: "Making up Bobbie." |
Date: | 1922 |
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Description: | Broadway star Lenore Ulric, dressed and made-up for the stage, listens to an early portable radio receiver. |
Date: | 1916 |
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Description: | English Shakespearian and Broadway actress Constance Collier checks her makeup in a small mirror held by her maid. Collier holds a puppy. |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | Scene still with Marshall Neilan, in white shirt, and Ruth Roland in a room crowded with police officers from one of the many silent films they made for Ka... |
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Description: | Doc Mann of Beloit, Wisconsin, who performed novelty entertainment and "top hat magic" as Mandu the magician. |
Date: | 08 04 1942 |
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Description: | View of a woman as she was loaded into the agent's car after a raid at Rae's Blackhawk Bar. She is hiding her face in her coat. |
Date: | 1968 |
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Description: | Refugees at a Red Cross aid station in Hue shortly after the Tet offensive left much of the city in ruins. This scene was witnessed by American journalist ... |
Date: | 1923 |
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Description: | Three young cavemen--cavepersons?--react in fear to an offscreen threat. From left to right the actors are Anna Q. Nilsson, Pauline Garon, and Theodore Kos... |
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