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Film Still from "The Beckoning Flame"

Date: 1916
Description: Film still of exterior garden with three actors, two in Indian costume with turbans. One actress in Indian costume. One actor in "colonial" costume.
Photograph

Film Still from "The Beckoning Flame"

Date: 1916
Description: Film still of interior palatial scene with large group of actors and actresses dancing and celebrating in Indian costumes, some with turbans.
Photograph

Dixieland Theatre

Date: 1916
Description: The Dixieland Theatre in South Jacksonville, Florida, before it was converted by the Gaumont Company into a film studio.
Map or Atlas

Peninsula State Park, Door County, Wisconsin

Date: 1916
Description: This Wisconsin Conservation Commission map from 1916 shows Peninsula State Park in the Town of Gibraltar, Door County, Wisconsin. Depicted are open and pla...
Map or Atlas

Peninsula State Park, Door County, Wisconsin

Date: 1916
Description: This version of a 1916 Wisconsin Conservation Commission map shows Peninsula State Park in the Town of Gibraltar, Door County, Wisconsin. Depicted are open...
Photograph

Tourists Visit Universal City

Date: 1916
Description: Seven well-dressed tourists visit Universal City and pose with actor Neal Hart who is in cowboy costume and has his horse nearby. A water tower is visible ...
Map or Atlas

Map of the City of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin

Date: 1916
Description: Includes index to businesses, churches, and schools. Shows local streets, buildings, railroads, ward divisions, Fond du Lac River, and part of Lake Winneba...
Photograph

Man in Truck

Date: 1916
Description: A truck parked in front of an International Harvester Company building, possibly the Champion Works. The building has an archway, with lettering which read...
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 1916
Description: View down middle of unpaved street towards six children standing in the middle. There is a storefront on the right, with an automobile and a horse and bugg...
Photograph

Public School

Date: 1916
Description: Three-quarter view from front of the public school, which is a two-story wood frame building with a belfry. There are two doors at the front of the buildin...
Photograph

A Busy Day at Wilton, Wisconsin

Date: 1916
Description: View down middle of street, with pedestrians, horses and wagons delivering milk cans. The ridge of a tree-lined hill is in the background.
Photograph

Scene at Wilton

Date: 1916
Description: View across street in a central business district. On the opposite corner is a brick building with a balcony. A man sits in front of a store front on the s...
Photograph

The Gillett Children

Date: 1916
Description: Studio group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Gillett children, left to right: Sherry (b. 1913), Lorin (b. 1915), and Harry (b. 1910).
Map or Atlas

Map of the City of Racine

Date: 1916
Description: This map of Racine includes an indexed street directory, schools, public buildings, parks, directory of buildings, and churches. The map includes 3 illustr...
Photograph

Women on Stage

Date: 1916
Description: Seven women on stage, apparently in a scene from an amateur theatrical performance, wearing conventional street clothes.
Photograph

Apiary of F.H. Stacey

Date: 1916
Description: Backyard apiary consisting of a large group of numbered beehives on a platform in front of a house. Behind them is a man standing wearing a vest and hat. W...
Photograph

View of Barn and Family

Date: 1916
Description: Barn and silo, with horses and farm wagon, and three children in pony buggy. Three men stand near the horse-drawn wagon on the left. The two horses are wea...
Photograph

Big Bull Falls

Date: 1916
Description: Water of Big Bull Falls or the Wisconsin River rapidly flows underneath two railroad bridges. Pedestrians cross the bridges while peering over at the over...
Postcard

High School

Date: 1916
Description: Hand-colored postcard view from across street towards the Chippewa Falls High School on North Bridge Street. Caption reads: "High School, Chippewa Falls, W...
Postcard

Nagawicka Lake

Date: 1916
Description: Elevated view from hill looking towards Nagawicka Lake. There is a road and buildings along the shoreline at the bottom of the hill. There are a number of ...

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