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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for International two-horse, power, and motor hay presses. The motor hay presses include Mogul hopper cooled mounted engines. Includes c... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | The actors, cameraman, and director discuss the script on location for the silent film "Sunshine Alley" (Goldwyn, 1917). On the right is a Bell & Howell mo... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Billie Burke wearing fashionable sportswear (a matching set of bloomers, leggings, and cap) points a Kodak roll film camera at the photographer. She stands... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Mogul Jr. 1 H.P. engine on a metal stand for display. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Stationary engines of various sizes mounted on skids or planks of wood. The engines appear to be situated among scaffolding and an unfinished wall at what ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | View down a Petrograd (St. Petersburg) street with the Church of the Resurrection in the background. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Group of women gathered at a church for a lecture regarding 4-H Clubs. The lecture was held in conjunction with the Union Pacific Nebraska Farm Preparednes... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Rear view of an automobile resting alongside a snow-filled Michigan Avenue during the winter. Other automobiles are parked near commercial buildings in the... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Interior spread of an advertising booklet produced by the Remy Electric Company's Tractor Equipment Division depicting a labeled cross-section of a Governo... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Advertisement produced by the Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company listing reasons to purchase the Waterloo Boy line of agricultural equipment. Illustrations o... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still of a man seated at a roll-top desk in his office. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the Waterloo Boy Two-Speed 12-25 kerosene tractor. The advertisement features a side view illustration of the tractor surrounded by small... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Still from the 1917 Pathé movie "Sylvia of the Secret Service," featuring Irene Castle (playing Sylvia Carroll), captured by the villains. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a booklet advertising Eagle farm engines. The Eagle Manufacturing Company was based in Appleton, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the E-B 9-16 tractor with illustrations of the machinery's transmission and kerosene motor. The headline reads: "E-B 9-16 is the Simplest... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking down at a large crowd of people gathered at the depot to see off Company D of the 5th Wisconsin Infantry leaving Hartford for Camp Do... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view of the central business district. The street is lined with businesses and street lamps. A man and a dog are in front of the bank on... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Betty Sherwin, played by Fannie Ward with her rock pick in hand, searches her inherited mine for gold in a scene still for the silent comedy "Betty to the ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | In the forest, Stella Benton (played by Kathlyn Williams in a striped skirt and white blouse) talks to Jack Fyfe (played by Wallace Reid in outdoors clothe... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Silent film actress Lottie Briscoe in a studio publicity photograph posed sitting at a small table with a candlestick telephone, a vase with flowers, and s... |
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