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Mrs. Hugh O'Neill

Date: 11 28 1933
Description: Portrait of elderly Mrs. Hugh O'Neill, lying in bed after losing her life savings of $610, which had been in a bag pinned to her undergarments. 917 Chandle...
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Working Conditions on Railroad Car Ferries

Date: 09 10 1946
Description: Worker reads union newspaper while sitting on a bunk and smoking a cigar. Part of a series on working conditions aboard Lake Michigan railroad car ferries....
Photograph

Crewman in Bunk

Date: 06 1942
Description: A member of the United Fruit Company's S.S. Santa Marta relaxing in his bunk while reading a book in Spanish and smoking a cigarette. The man is on ...
Photograph

Film Still from "The Bride of Hate"

Date: 1917
Description: Film still of Interior bedroom with young woman in bed being comforted by a servant - a white actress in blackface. ("Black face" is written on the back of...
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John Henry Davis, Civil Rights Worker

Date: 07 1965
Description: Portrait of John Henry Davis, taken by a fellow civil rights volunteer. "John Henry Davis, a most dedicated and brave freedom fighter, a warm personal frie...
Poster

"Matrimonio a la Argentina" (Marriage, Argentine-Style) Film Poster

Date: 1968
Description: Argentine film poster. Illustrated image of a woman chasing a man in a bedroom while another woman runs out a door. Three people watch, one from a closet, ...
Photograph

Smoking in Bed

Date: 1920
Description: A young man, possibly Forest Middleton, lying on a painted iron bed with a bed spread covering him. He is holding a lighted cigarette in his left hand; a c...

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