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Dickey Chapelle Photographs Training Exercise

Date: 1955
Description: Dickey Chapelle crouches on the ground as she takes a photograph of a Marine at the San Diego Recruit Depot.
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Chapelle Photographs Marines

Date: 1955
Description: Front view of Dickey Chapelle shooting photographs of two Marines, who are shown from the back.
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Véra Clouzot, Simone Signoret, and Paul Meurisse in Les Diaboliques

Date: 1955
Description: Scene still of Véra Clouzot, Simone Signoret, and Paul Meurisse in Henri-George Clouzot's Les Diaboliques (Diabolique, 1955).
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Gunnar Björnstrand and Ulla Jacobsson in Sommarnattens leende (Smiles of a Summer Night)

Date: 1955
Description: Scene still of Gunnar Björnstrand, playing Fredrik Egerman, and Ulla Jacobsson, playing his young wife Anne in Ingmar Bergman's Sommarnattens leende (Sm...
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Napalm Testing Camp Pendleton

Date: 1955
Description: Marine and bayonet silhouetted in a fiery blast of napalm. Taken during a napalm testing maneuver at Camp Pendleton.
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Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in "To Catch a Thief"

Date: 1955
Description: Cary Grant and Grace Kelly are cheek to cheek in this close-up publicity still for "To Catch a Thief" (Paramount 1955).
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"Rebel Without a Cause" Movie Still

Date: 1955
Description: Movie still from the Warner Bros. movie "Rebel Without a Cause," featuring Sal Mineo (playing John "Plato" Crawford), James Dean (playing Jim Stark), and N...
Book or Pamphlet

Trucks: A Little Golden Activity Book

Date: 1955
Description: Cover of a Little Golden Activity Book for children titled "Trucks." Features a color illustration of International trucks, including an International S-10...
Drawing

"Artists and Models"

Date: 1955
Description: Sketch for a costume for Dean Martin in the film "Artists and Models" done by Edith Head. The costume is a painter's smock worn with pants and includes a l...
Poster

"Sein oder nicht sein" (To Be or Not to Be) Film Poster

Date: 1955
Description: German film poster for the re-release of the American film. Abstract image of Adolf Hitler's face illustrated on half a broken egg shell shape, with four s...
Photograph

Homestead

Date: 1955
Description: View down unpaved road towards a rustic house and garage, with a truck parked in front. There are woods behind the buildings.
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River Line

Date: 1955
Description: Industries along the Milwaukee River, one of which is the Schlitz Brewery.
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Team! Team!

Date: 1955
Description: Two young boys playing with a football. One boy wearing a helmet is about to kick the football, just as the other boy has just stood the ball upright.
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Cradled Tug Jane

Date: 1955
Description: A tugboat, "Jane of Kimberly," is cradled out of the water for winter storage or repairs. Two other boats are cradled on each side. In the background are t...
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The Plotters

Date: 1955
Description: Elevated view of four women sitting, and one man standing, around a large map of northeast Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The women are wearing ...

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