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Covered Wagon in "Romance of the Reaper"

Date: 1929
Description: A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper." The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape...
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Covered Wagon in "Romance of the Reaper"

Date: 1929
Description: A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper." The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape...
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Two Men and a Woman Dressed for "Romance of the Reaper"

Date: 1929
Description: A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper." The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape...
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Mock Shotgun Wedding

Date: 08 15 1942
Description: A mock shotgun wedding at a Civilian Defense Rally, with a solider marrying a woman with a man dressed as a country priest presiding.
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James Cagney Scene Still

Date: 1933
Description: Jimmy Cagney as Danny Kean in a scene still from "Picture Snatcher" (WB, 1933).
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"Rio Conchos" Lobby Card

Date: 1964
Description: Lobby card advertising the 20th Century-Fox film "Rio Conchos."
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"The Shadow Returns" Lobby Card

Date: 1946
Description: Lobby card for the Monogram film "The Shadow Returns," showing The Shadow at the base of a staircase.
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"The Shadow Returns" Lobby Card

Date: 1946
Description: Lobby card for the Monogram film "The Shadow Returns," showing a scene with Kane Richmond (playing Lamont Cranston), Barbara Reed (playing Margo Lane), Tom...
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"The Shadow Returns" Lobby Card

Date: 1946
Description: Lobby card from the Monogram film "The Shadow Returns," showing a scene of two characters caught by The Shadow, who has sneaked up behind them with his gun...
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Charles Ray in "The Sheriff's Son"

Date: 1919
Description: Royal Beaudry (played by Charles Ray) peers cautious from the open door of a rough stone building with a revolver in his hand in a scene still from "The Sh...
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Film Still of Actress Josie Sedgwick from "The Boss of the Lazy 'Y'"

Date: 1918
Description: Actress Josie Sedgwick plays Betty Clayton in this western. Betty is in charge of the Lazy Y ranch, and her young brother Bobby lives with her. Her grandfa...
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Film Still of Actress Josie Sedgwick from "The Boss of the Lazy 'Y'"

Date: 1918
Description: Actress Josie Sedgwick as Betty Clayton runs the Lazy Y ranch for Calumet Marston, who is in a feud with Neal Taggart and his father Tom. Betty is with two...
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Film Still from "The Boss of the Lazy 'Y'"

Date: 1918
Description: Actress Josie Sedgwick as Betty Clayton and six other men, some with guns, holed up in a ranch house, shooting toward a window. One of the men stands with ...
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Film Still from "The Boss of the Lazy 'Y'"

Date: 1918
Description: Group of four men and one woman outdoors at a ranch setting. One man has blood from a likely gunshot wound on his forearm.
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Publicity Still of John Gilbert in "The Cossacks"

Date: 1928
Description: Publicity still of actor John Gilbert in "The Cossacks." He is looking towards the left and smiling, and is wearing a big bushy hat and holding a gun at hi...
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"Sylvia of the Secret Service" Movie Still

Date: 1917
Description: Still from the 1917 Pathé movie "Sylvia of the Secret Service," featuring Irene Castle (playing Sylvia Carroll), surprising a safecracker.
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"Sylvia of the Secret Service" Movie Still

Date: 1917
Description: Still from the 1917 Pathé movie "Sylvia of the Secret Service," featuring Irene Castle (playing Sylvia Carroll), captured by the villains.
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"Birth of a Nation" Street Battle

Date: 1915
Description: Street scene from the film "The Birth of a Nation" featuring a battle between soldiers on foot and members of the Ku Klux Klan on horseback. The men on hor...
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After a Fight, Scene Still from "Zudora"

Date: 1914
Description: Actor Harry Benham points accusingly at a ruffian on the floor as two police officers subdue two criminals in a scene still from the Thanhouser serial "Zud...
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Hands Up in a Scene Still from "Zudora"

Date: 1914
Description: Actor Harry Benham covers two ruffians with two pistols as Marguerite Snow ministers to an insensible young man on the floor in a scene still from the Than...

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