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| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Two people driving a Farmall Cub through an urban area. They are towing a wagon with movie advertisement, announcing "The Farmer's Daughter," starring Lore... |
| Date: | 11 02 1930 |
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| Description: | Group of people, including dwarfs and midgets, posing with "the worlds largest tire" in front of the RKO Orpheum Theatre as part of a promotion for Goodyea... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Parade of two International "Jungle Yachts" on Times Square, with newsreel cameramen on top of cars in front of the procession. The "Jungle Yachts" were sp... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Cameraman and sound operator from Paramount Sound News on top of a truck filming a demonstration of the McCormick-Deering O-12 radio-controlled tractor and... |
| Date: | 07 12 1929 |
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| Description: | Cameraman filming a farmer on a McCormick-Deering Farmall Regular tractor with attached cultivator as three men look on. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view from street towards ushers posing in front of the Capitol Theatre. The marquee reads: "Maurice Chevalier in 'The Love Parade.'" |
| Date: | 03 13 1936 |
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| Description: | View from street of Barney Miller, the driver, feeding hay to Ned, the oldest dairy horse in service in Madison. The horse is hitched to a Kennedy Dairy wa... |
| Date: | 07 13 1933 |
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| Description: | View from street of the Eastwood theatre, located at 2090 Atwood Avenue with "Sun - The Mind Reader with W. Williams and C. Cummings" and "Happy Jack Turn... |
| Date: | 09 24 1932 |
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| Description: | Horse-drawn cart advertising "Horsefeathers," a Marx Brothers movie, for the RKO Orpheum Theatre. "Mad Mirth takes a chariot ride among the wild oats." |
| Date: | 04 29 1931 |
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| Description: | Shell service station, with a male attendant standing in front. There are posters advertising the "Trader Horn" movie on the ground in front of the pumps. |
| Date: | 01 10 1931 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for Movie "Lightnin'" starring Will Rogers. The marquee at the Strand Theatre reads: "Break all dates — see Will Rogers in Lightnin." 16 E. M... |
| Date: | 12 27 1930 |
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| Description: | View across street towards an advertisement for the movie "Third Alarm" on the side of a fire wagon with two fire fighters being pulled by horses in front ... |
| Date: | 11 22 1930 |
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| Description: | People lined up in front of the Strand Theater, 16 E. Mifflin Street, to see "The Big Trail." Also shows Boy Scouts, their leader and an Indian with a sign... |
| Date: | 11 08 1930 |
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| Description: | Parade of new Buicks advertising the midnight preview of the movie "Whoopee" starring Eddie Cantor playing at the RKO Capitol Theatre. |
| Date: | 10 28 1930 |
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| Description: | The Capitol Theatre marquee, 209 State Street, advertises Amos 'n Andy in "Check and Double Check" flanked by the Lurose' women's clothing store, 205 State... |
| Date: | 10 10 1930 |
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| Description: | Man dressed as an African standing beside poster advertising the movie, "Africa Speaks," in front of the Capitol Theatre, 209 State Street. |
| Date: | 09 27 1930 |
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| Description: | Two men and two boys are standing besides a truck parked on North Pinckney Street which has large signs advertising Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey in the ... |
| Date: | 09 19 1930 |
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| Description: | RKO movie advertisement on an Ed Klief Transfer Line truck. The U.W. Meat Market at 728 University Avenue is in the background. |
| Date: | 09 14 1930 |
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| Description: | Motion picture advertisement for RKO Capitol Theatre's "Anybody's Woman" displayed at Breese Stevens Field. A man is standing at the concession stand below... |
| Date: | 08 21 1930 |
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| Description: | Automobiles, and the Esther Beach Band on back of a truck, in a parade on the 300 block of East Johnson Street promoting the movie "Dixiana." |
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