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| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | A still from the film The Jazz Singer showing Eugenie Besserer, Al Jolson, and Warner Oland (Warner 1927). |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Sculptor Jo Davidson stands with Benito Mussolini and his bust-in-progress of Mussolini. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | The Sidell Sisters, Billie and Pierre, in a posed shot for their appearance in Florenz Ziegfeld's production of Show Boat. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | The Sidell Sisters, Billie and Pierre, posed as a Latin couple. The Sidell Sisters were from Madison, Wisconsin. They were students of Leo T. Kehl and th... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Crowds walking past the Horticulture Building at the Wiconsin State Fair. In a pavilion above the building the Aluminum Goose Manufacturing Co. Band of Ma... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | A crowd is gathered around MGM's "trackless train" outside the Astor Theater where "The Big Parade" is showing. Also visible is a gigantic advertisement fo... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Old Soldiers' Reunion on the public square. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | The Man (George O'Brien) suffers with guilt as he remembers his wedding vows, while the Wife (Janet Gaynor) comforts him, in a scene still from "Sunrise: A... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | The Wife (Janet Gaynor) flees from the Man (George O'Brien) after he has tried to kill her, in Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (Fox, 1927). |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | The Woman from the City (Margaret Livingston) urges the Man (George O'Brien) to kill his wife so he can run away to the city with her, in Sunrise: A Son... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with three carolers singing in front of a snow-covered house. One caroler holds a lantern and they are dressed in Old English clothing style. ... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Blueprint-style map of Frost Woods on the shore of Lake Monona. The map indicates the locations of Indian mounds, an Indian camp, and various plants. There... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | The famous German actor Emil Jannings is on the roof of his California home posing on a rowing machine. The original caption stamped on the back of the pri... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Paramount Pictures studio portrait of Emil Jannings in coat and tie with a cigar in his mouth. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Close-up, low-key publicity portrait of Emil Jannings in shirt and tie holding a cigar to his mouth. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Publicity still for the film "The Show." John Gilbert is seen in profile — he is wearing a hat, striped shirt, and a scarf around his neck. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | View from street of Mathew's Drug Store, which is a two-story brick building with large display windows on the first floor. A number of people are on sidew... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | View of intersection towards a restaurant and grocery on the left, with dwellings and other buildings in the background. A group of people standing posing ... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | A Native American boy and girl pose standing in front of a tipi on a hill by a lake. The tipi is covered with a fringed blanket. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Alonzo Pond using a movie camera at the market. Behind him people are walking among a number of camels sitting on the ground. |
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