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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Edna Ferber looking to her right, wearing a string of pearls. |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Author Alex Haley autographing a copy of his best selling book, Roots, during a visit to Spottsylvania County, Virginia, where his ancestor Kunte Ki... |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Author Alex Haley and actor LeVar Burton visit the grave of Haley's ancestor, the slave Kunte Kinte, in Spottsylvania County, Virginia. In the television ... |
| Date: | 03 1965 |
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| Description: | The caption with this photograph reads: "Dr. Walter Peterson (right), professor of history at Lawrence University, Appleton, with F. Gerald Ham, Wisconsin ... |
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| Description: | Gore Vidal (left) and William F. Buckley (right) each sit in a chair while they have makeup applied before a television appearance. |
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| Description: | Herman Goering, Louis Lochner and an unidentified man standing in a row indoors in a room with a large window in the background. In the room is stuffed fur... |
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| Description: | Academy Award nomination certificate given to Alvah Bessie for Outstanding Achievement Original Story for the 1945 film "Objective, Burma!" There is an out... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of actress and author Gladys Drew. She wears a dark hat with a plume on top which is tied underneath her chin. Gladys was the first wife of... |
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| Description: | Writer Samuel Ornitz sits at a desk and has one arm resting on a typewriter. He has a book propped open on the desk which he is looking at. There are ful... |
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| Description: | Four photographs of screenwriter Samuel Ornitz from either the late 1940s or 1950s. He is wearing a suit coat and tie and sits in a garden. Ornitz is tal... |
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