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Kids Drawing

Date: 05 02 1964
Description: Sitting on the school lawn, students draw Highway 51, Marathon Mill, Rib mountain and the Wisconsin River.
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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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Mack Sennett Bathing Beauties Posed on an Automobile

Date: 02 1919
Description: Six Mack Sennett bathing beauties wave as they sit on a Willys Six seven-seat touring car. Three of the actresses are tentatively identified as Marie Prevo...
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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 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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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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Barn Painting

Date: 09 25 1980
Description: Pastoral panoramic painting on the side of a barn. Two people on scaffolding can be seen working on the mural at right. A silo juts above the barn. There i...
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Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in "Casablanca"

Date: 1943
Description: Humphrey Bogart (playing Rick Blaine) faces Ingrid Bergman (as Ilsa Lund) in a scene still from "Casablanca" (Warner 1942). This tender moment is from the ...
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"Taxi" Scene Still

Date: 1919
Description: Night-time scene still from the Triangle silent film "Taxi," featuring Taylor Holmes (playing Robert Hervey Randolph) leaning on his taxi.
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"Affinities" Scene Still

Date: 1922
Description: Still from the 1922 Hodkinson film "Affinities," featuring Pietro Sosso (as Professor Savage), John Bowers (as Day Illington), and Colleen Moore (as Fanny ...
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Rear Projection

Date: 1951
Description: Production still showing the technique of rear projection. A 1951 Ford, jacked up in front so the steering wheel can turn, sits in front of a rear projecti...
Poster

L'Amerique Fait Appel... Le Mystere Kennedy

Date: 1967
Description: Poster advertising the French release of "Rush to Judgment," Emile de Antonio's 1967 documentary film about the Warren Commission. Poster has black text an...
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Albert Basserman, Actor

Date: 1940
Description: Albert Basserman is seen on the set of the film "Foreign Correspondent." He is walking up a flight of stairs in the rain holding an umbrella. A crowd of pe...
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Scene Still for "Foreign Correspondent"

Date: 1940
Description: Elevated scene still for the film "Foreign Correspondent." Pedestrians are walking with umbrellas down the sidewalk in the rain. On the street people are r...
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"Foreign Correspondent" Premiere

Date: 1940
Description: View from street of the Rivoli Theater in Times Square. There is a large crowd on the sidewalk outside the theater. The marquee says the premiere of the fi...
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Long Voyage Home Marquee

Date: 1940
Description: View down sidewalk towards people standing in a line outside a movie theater showing the film The Long Voyage Home. Many people are holding umbrella...
Poster

"Halt mal die Bombe, Liebling" (The Joy of Living) Film Poster

Date: 1963
Description: German film poster for the French-Italian Film, "Che gioia vivere." Nine illustrated, square panels filled with different scenes. One shows two men fightin...
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"Un muchacho como yo" (A Boy Like Me) Film Poster

Date: 1968
Description: Argentine film poster. Partially photographic and partially illustrated image of a man driving an older model car, with two other men and two women riding ...

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