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| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Lobby card for the Monogram film "The Shadow Returns," featuring several characters on a patio investigating a body that has just fallen from the roof. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | The robber Jimmy Briggs (played by Eugene Pallette) menaces Grace Remington (Norma Talmadege) in her bedroom in this scene still from the silent feature fi... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | The robber Jimmy Briggs (played by Eugene Pallette) is stifling the cries of Grace Remington (Norma Talmadege) in this scene still from the silent feature ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Mr. Pepper (played by Charles Lee) lies dead on the floor as his daughter Jane (Irene Hunt) kneels beside him in shock. In the background sitting by a smal... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Mr. Pepper (played by Charles Lee) lies dead upon the floor while seven other characters stand about the room in attitudes of shock and bewilderment. On th... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Mr. Pepper's butler (played by Philip Gastrock) describes how his master was murdered to a group including Jane Pepper (Irene Hunt), her brother (Jack Conw... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | The actress Nell Craig holds a revolver on Ernest Maupain while Richard Travers looks on in a scene still from the 1916 Essanay film "In a Looking Glass." |
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| Description: | A strip of three mug shots of Louis Maniacci, prisoner 22846. |
| Date: | 09 05 1934 |
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| Description: | A strip of three mug shots of James Gumina, prisoner 21855. |
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| Description: | A strip of three mug shots of Isadore Crupi, prisoner 23115. |
| Date: | 12 21 1934 |
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| Description: | A strip of three mug shots of Michael Caruso, prisoner 22055. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Still from the 1917 Pathé movie "Sylvia of the Secret Service," featuring Irene Castle (playing Sylvia Carroll), surprising a safecracker. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Still from the 1917 Pathé movie "Sylvia of the Secret Service," featuring Irene Castle (playing Sylvia Carroll), captured by the villains. |
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| Description: | Logging crew of four men with a team of oxen hauling logs through a snow-covered forest. |
| Date: | 08 31 1862 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a printed broadside, Public Order No. 1., issued by The Committee of Safety. The first order appears to be addressing some kind of dangerous ... |
| Date: | 01 16 1958 |
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| Description: | The original caption states, "Edward Krueger, center, is shown as he was sentenced by Circuit Judge Richard Bardwell to five years in Green Bay state refor... |
| Date: | 01 17 1958 |
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| Description: | The original caption states: "Dane County sheriff's officials survey about $300 worth of auto parts and other merchandise recovered from members of a juven... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Held against her will on a desolate island, Nellie Nolan (played by Edith Taliaferro) is forced to write her own kidnapping note by Spagnoli (Al Ernest Gar... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Actor Harry Benham points accusingly at a ruffian on the floor as two police officers subdue two criminals in a scene still from the Thanhouser serial "Zud... |
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