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First Message to Civilization

Date: 1919
Description: A group of Jewish people dressed as Old Testament characters standing in front of American and Israeli flags.
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Exile into Babylon

Date: 1919
Description: A group of Jewish people dressed as Old Testament characters standing in front of the flag of Israel .
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The Jewish Rebirth

Date: 1919
Description: A Jewish man, woman, and child dressed as Old Testament characters standing in front of an Israeli flag.
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Houdini in Chains

Date: 1919
Description: Harry Houdini in a scene from the silent motion picture, "The Grim Game."
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Elsie Janis and Three of her Gang

Date: 1919
Description: Elsie Janis, in military uniform, stands arm-in-arm with three soldiers in a publicity photograph for the musical revue "Elsie Janis and Her Gang." They we...
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Clara Kimball Young and her Parents

Date: 1919
Description: Silent film star Clara Kimball Young, dressed in a pirate costume, with her parents Edward M. Kimball and Pauline Maddern Kimball on either side of her. Th...
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"Hay Foot, Straw Foot"

Date: 1919
Description: Thaddeus Briggs (Spottiswoode Aitken) is handing his grandson Ulysses S. Grant Briggs (Charles Ray) something in a still for the 1919 film "Hay Foot, Straw...
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"Never Say Quit"

Date: 1919
Description: Reginald Jones (George Walsh) gazing up at Helen Lattimore (Florence Dixon) in a scene from the 1919 film "Never Say Quit." The two are on a yacht, and she...

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