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Buster Keaton and Seneca Grape Juice Executive

Date: 1965
Description: Buster Keaton (right) appraises a costume for a Seneca Grape Juice TV commercial with J. Wolcott, the company's Vice President.
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Howard Hughes, Millionaire Fly Boy

Date: 1934
Description: Howard Hughes, looking every inch the millionaire playboy, with his U.S. Army Boeing pursuit plane. Hughes had rebuilt the plane in order to increase its s...
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Hugh Flannery Receives $100 War Bond

Date: 01 29 1945
Description: With a backdrop of celebrity portrait photographs and stacks of coins on his desk, Hugh Flannery, manager of the Orpheum Theatre, is receiving a $100 War B...
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Giant Holding Meinhardt Raabe

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Description: A man described as a giant is holding Meinhardt Raabe with one arm. Meinhardt is dressed as Little Oscar.
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Giant Man and Meinhardt Raabe

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Description: A giant man, wearing a suit and hat, and Meinhardt Raabe, who is dressed as Little Oscar, are standing together and pulling up their pants legs to compare ...
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International Truck Advertising Proof

Date: 11 1954
Description: Advertising proof created by Young and Rubicam for the International Harvester Company. Features a photograph of Ronald Colman and Benita Hume with the tex...
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Hildegarde with Governor Oscar Rennebohm

Date: 01 15 1950
Description: Entertainer and pianist Hildegarde, born Hildegarde Loretta Sell, is shown in fur coat with Governor Oscar Rennebohm. She is a Wisconsin native born in Ade...
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Jackie Robinson

Date: 01 26 1955
Description: Jackie Robinson standing in front of a curtain wearing a jacket and tie. He is standing next to a podium, perhaps behind the curtain before or after speaki...
Magazine or Periodical

Frank Lloyd Wright on the Cover of "Harvester World"

Date: 08 1950
Description: Frank Lloyd Wright posing on the cover of "Harvester World" magazine. Wright is sitting at a desk at Taliesin.
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Edward Everett Horton Publicity Still

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Description: Publicity still of actor Edward Everett Horton, posing with a cigarette.
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Harry Davenport Publicity Still

Date: 1949
Description: Publicity still of actor Harry Davenport. Caption reads: Veteran...of motion pictures, each role more distinguished than its predecessor, Harry Davenport g...
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Ray Bolger Publicity Still

Date: 1938
Description: Publicity still of actor Ray Bolger in a checkered suit jacket. Photographed by Clarence S. Bull. Caption reads: Ray Bolger... Latest portrait of the eccen...
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Eric Blore Publicity Still

Date: 1937
Description: Publicity still of actor Eric Blore.
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Charles Bickford Publicity Still

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Description: Publicity still of actor Charles Bickford, wearing a plaid tie.
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Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson Publicity Still

Date: 09 25 1946
Description: Publicity still of actor Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson.
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Bart and Cherry Starr

Date: 03 13 2014
Description: Bart Starr (Pro Football Hall of Famer and Former Green Bay Packer quarterback and coach) and his wife, Cherry Starr, posing for a photo at a Boy Scouts of...
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Bart Starr

Date: 03 13 2014
Description: Posed portrait of Bart Starr, Pro Football Hall of Famer and Former Green Bay Packer quarterback and coach at a Boy Scouts of America press conference in t...
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Testimonial Dinner for Jimmy Demetral

Date: 03 11 1964
Description: Smiling Jimmy Demetral at his testimonial dinner.
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Jimmy Demetral Readies His Trophies

Date: 09 22 1964
Description: Madison wrestling promoter Jimmy Demetral posing proudly between two large ornate trophies that he would provide and present annually to the player voted m...
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A. Burke Summers Campaigns for Goldwater

Date: 10 24 1964
Description: A. Burke Summers, former ambassador to Luxemburg and hunter of African big game, traveled the U.S. in 1964 campaigning at his own expense for Goldwater and...

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