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Father Groppi and Demonstrators

Date: 1968
Description: Father James Groppi (1930-) and school desegregation demonstrators marching in. Milwaukee holding signs that read "Stop School Segregation"
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Sun Bathing

Date: 1965
Description: Women sun bathe near an express highway in Milwaukee.
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Rod Serling Sitting on Car

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Description: Rod Serling sits shirtless on the hood of a car.
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Rudolph Valentino with Voisin Car

Date: 1923
Description: Rudolph Valentino and his wife Natacha Rambova pose with their Voisin automobile.
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Clara Kimball Young, an Automobile, and a Chow Dog

Date: 1918
Description: The silent film actress Clara Kimball Young, dressed for a drive in a military-styled coat with patch pockets and a dark straw hat, stands beside a car wit...
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Gaston Glass in his New Car

Date: 1922
Description: French-born silent film actor Gaston Glass at the wheel of a touring car with a spare tire mounted on the running board. Glass later became an assistant di...
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Douglas Fairbanks and a Stutz Bearcat Automobile

Date: 1918
Description: Silent film star Douglas Fairbanks stands in the cockpit of a Stutz Bearcat roadster.
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Florence Lawrence in a Lozier Automobile

Date: 1912
Description: A publicity still of Victor Film Company silent film star Florence Lawrence driving a Lozier open touring car with 1912 Pennsylvania license plates.
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Fred Stone in an Early Automobile.

Date: 1905
Description: Comic actor Fred Stone holding the tiller of an early two-seat runabout. The automobile may be a Woods Electric or Woods Dual Power. Stone had been a circu...
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Albert E. Smith, Antonio Moreno, and a Small Racing Car

Date: 1920
Description: Albert E. Smith, one of the founders of the Vitagraph motion picture company, stands with a cigar in his mouth looking down at the silent film star Antonio...
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Antonio Moreno in a Racing Car

Date: 1920
Description: Vitagraph silent film star Antonio Moreno sits grinning beind the wheel of a very small racing car in a photograph heavily retouched for print reproduction...
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Mary Miles Minter and James Kirkwood

Date: 08 16 1916
Description: The fifteen-year-old silent film actress Mary Miles Minter stands beside a two-seat roadster automobile looking at the director James Kirkwood sitting at t...
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Vivian Martin in a Cadillac Automobile

Date: 1916
Description: Silent film actress Vivian Martin sits behind the wheel of what appears to be a 1916 Cadillac two-door coupe.
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Robert Warwick and a Stutz Bearcat Automobile

Date: 1916
Description: Silent film star Robert Warwick in heavy fur coat and hat leaning over the engine of a Stutz Bearcat roadster. Original caption: "D--n that carburetor....
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Robert Warwick and a Stutz Bearcat Automobile

Date: 1916
Description: Silent film star Robert Warwick in heavy fur coat and hat sits in the driver's seat of a Stutz Bearcat roadster for a publicity photograph. Original cap...
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Niles Welch Working on a Hudson Automobile

Date: 09 1918
Description: Silent film actor Niles Welch on the ground underneath the front of a 1918 Hudson Super Six touring limousine. Apparently he is using a carpenter's brace d...
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Niles Welch Sawing a Hudson Automobile

Date: 09 1918
Description: Silent film actor Niles Welch is apparently using a wood saw on the engine of a 1918 Hudson Super Six touring limousine. Other carpenter's tools--a plane a...
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Niles Welch and a Hudson Automobile

Date: 1918
Description: Silent film actor Niles Welch is stepping up onto the running board of a 1918 Hudson Super Six touring limousine. He wears a casual suit with a belted coat...
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Automobile Club Members

Date: 10 10 1966
Description: Four auto club members work on a 1932 Ford Coupe. Rick Burkee (right, foreground) and Robin Friberg work on engine parts as Greg Beaster polishes the car h...
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Houdini in Chains

Date: 1922
Description: Harry Houdini, the well-known escape artist, was born in Budapest, Hungary and raised in Appleton, Wisconsin. At the time of his immigration his name was s...

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