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| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | A boxing ring lobby display at the Empire Theatre for Battling Butler with Buster Keaton. The lobby cards read, "It's a knockout. Buster Keaton in '... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | A crowd is gathered around MGM's "trackless train" outside the Astor Theater where "The Big Parade" is showing. Also visible is a gigantic advertisement fo... |
| Date: | 02 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising a screening of D. W. Griffith's Intolerance, held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Wisconsin Union Theater, February 18, 19... |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Lithograph poster for Augustin Daly's 1867 play Under the Gaslight, depicting Snorkey the one-armed Civil War veteran tied to the railroad tracks, w... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Poster design (14 x 36 inches) for "The Astonished Heart" (Gainsborough Pictures, 1949). |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Window card for "The Astonished Heart" (Gainsborough Pictures, 1949). |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Poster design (22 x 28 inches) for "The Astonished Heart" (Gainsborough Pictures, 1949). |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Mock-up ad graphic for "Shock Corridor" (Allied Artists, 1963). |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Full page display ad for the husband and wife filmmaking team of John Emerson and Anita Loos in the 1918 edition of Wid's Yearbook, a motion picture trade ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in a poster still for the Warner production "Casablanca" (Warner 1942). |
| Date: | 04 10 1934 |
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| Description: | Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. Brew-Date label for a bottle of Blatz beer. The label features two cartoon gnomes hol... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Extensive promotional exhibit in front of an unidentified New York theater for the 1938 Universal film "The Crime of Doctor Hallet" starring Ralph Bellamy.... |
| Date: | 08 16 1934 |
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| Description: | Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration from the Quality Biscuit Company. Features a cartoon drawing of a mouse holding a micr... |
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| Description: | Poster on green card stock with black lettering advertising a performance of The Cradle Will Rock sponsored by the Harvard Student Union. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Page five of the playbill for performances of The Cradle Will Rock at the Windsor Theatre. The page credits Blitzstein, Orson Welles, and three of the cast... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Page eleven of the playbill for the performances of The Cradle Will Rock at the Windsor Theatre. Page eleven includes more of the cast list and an advertis... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | From left to right: Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, Oscar Amos Price, president of the United Artists Corporation, and Mary Pickford. Mr. Chaplin expla... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Political poster urging citizens to "Demonstrate No Confidence" in neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. The poster has a cartoon of the Republican el... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A page from the pressbook for the movie "Black Like Me" depicting a one-sheet poster that could be ordered to publicize the film. The poster reads: "I chan... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A photograph of a title card for a BETTY BOOP cartoon, showing Betty Boop sitting on the palm of a hand, surrounded by silhouettes of cheering men throwing... |
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