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Flying Tea Party

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Description: A tea party on an airplane, a publicity stunt conceived by Harry Bruno to promote his Cleveland-area airline, Aeromarine Airlines. By taking local reporter...
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Daisy Bates at NAACP Event

Date: 1957
Description: Daisy Bates, who is wearing a fur, poses with other people at an NAACP event.
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Woman Being Fingerprinted After Raid

Date: 08 05 1942
Description: Mrs. Kathleen Napoli, held a "keeper of a house of ill fame," as she was finger printed by an FBI Agent on Wednesday. Her husband, Dominic, is in the Army....
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Pioneer Pauline Frederick

Date: 03 1949
Description: Pauline Frederick (center in the fur coat), then the only woman news broadcaster at ABC, was one of many prominent women who addressed the Advertising Wome...
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John Gilbert and Greta Garbo

Date: 01 1927
Description: John Gilbert and Greta Garbo pose for photograph at the premiere of their film "The Flesh and the Devil." She is wearing a fur coat, white gloves and is ho...
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Woman in Front of a Mirror

Date: 1898
Description: Unidentified woman posed sitting in front of a dressing table with a tall mirror. She is wearing eyeglasses, a hat with feathers, and a long coat with what...
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Unidentified Woman in Formal Wear

Date: 1908
Description: Unidentified lady, seated, wearing an off-the-shoulder short-sleeved ballgown, which appears to have fur decorating the collar and shoulders. She is restin...
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Band Serenading Cafeteria Patrons

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Description: Slightly elevated view of a band playing and singing in a crowded cafeteria. The cafeteria is not identified, but signs on the walls advertise Gargoyle Cof...
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Zona Gale Reading for the Radio

Date: 1930
Description: Zona Gale reading for WHA radio station. She is sitting at a table looking down at a script.
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Portrait of Six Women in Wearing Hats

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Description: Vignetted group portrait of six young women posing in a row. They are all wearing hats with flat crowns, curved or bent brims and lavish feather arrangemen...
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Alma Schmidt Petersen

Date: 1930
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Alma Schmidt Petersen wearing a fur coat. Her head is turned to her left as she glances over her left shoulder.
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Unidentified Woman

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Description: Quarter plate daguerreotype of unidentified woman. Half figure facing front and slightly left. She is wearing a white collar, bell sleeves, and fur cape an...
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Mrs. Charles Derring

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Description: Three-quarter length portrait of Mrs. Charles Derring, sitting in a chair. She is wearing a velvet dress, feathered hat, fur stole and fur muff. Behind her...
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Lieutenant John H. Purcell and Wife

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Description: Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype of John Purcell and his wife. He is sitting facing halfway to the right, with his hands folded in his lap with his leg crosse...
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Ursula Grignon

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Description: Sixth plate ambrotype of Ursula Grignon. Three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing forward, wearing a dark cape with fur wrapped around shoulders, and ...
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Banquet at Beauty School

Date: 1961
Description: Group portrait of women at a banquet at the Green Bay Beauty School. In the back row, fourth from the left, is Frances Decorah. Handwritten at the bottom i...
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Robert Cummings and Claudette Colbert

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Description: Actors Robert Cummings and Claudette Colbert filming a scene from the 1948 film "Sleep, My Love." They are surrounded by assorted film making equipment, in...
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Production Still for "Sleep, My Love"

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Description: Unidentified actress having her gloves and veil adjusted by three other persons, on the set of "Sleep, My Love." One person is holding a fur stole.
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Sigrid Schultz in Berlin

Date: 1920
Description: Sigrid Schultz holding a camera on a tripod. She is likely taking a self-portrait in a mirror.

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