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Photograph

Ziegfield Follies

Date: 1912
Description: Bert Williams (right) and Leon Errol (left) are a cabbie and his fare from the 1912 Ziegfield Follies. The cab is drawn by a rumpled pantomime horse. Behin...
Painting

Steam Power

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Description: Painting of farmer with a steam powered tractor.
Photograph

Vernon Castle and Irene Castle.

Date: 1914
Description: The husband-wife dance team Vernon and Irene Castle on horseback on Long Island, a publicity photograph by Haas Photos of New York.
Photograph

Publicity Still from The Wicked Lady

Date: 1945
Description: Margaret Lockwood with pistol drawn and sitting on a horse. She stars as Barbara Worth in the 1945 Gainesborough film The Wicked Lady. The costume d...
Photograph

Silvana Mangano in Riso Amaro (Bitter Rice)

Date: 1949
Description: Scene still of Silvana Mangano, playing Silvana Melega, standing in a flooded rice paddy with two horses in Giuseppe De Santis's Riso Amaro (Bitter Rice...
Painting

Spring Planting

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Description: A farmer is planting corn using the planter wire method.
Painting

The Blacksmith Shop

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Description: A town scene featuring the blacksmith shop and horses.
Photograph

Ronald Reagan in Death Valley Days

Date: 1952
Description: Ronald Reagan sits on a horse in a publicity still for the TV show Death Valley Days. He wears a hat and a vest with a pocket watch fob attached to...
Print

"Chad Hanna" Lobby Card

Date: 1940
Description: Lobby card advertising the 20th Century-fox film "Chad Hanna."
Photograph

Ethel Grandin and Others in "Across the Plains"

Date: 1912
Description: Three or more pioneer women and an older man in buckskin look in horror at a threat--indians?--that is beyond the frame of the photograph in this scene sti...
Print

"Wild Rovers" Lobby Card

Date: 1971
Description: Lobby card for the 1971 MGM film "Wild Rovers" featuring two men attempting to rope a wild horse in a snowy field.
Photograph

"Birth of a Nation" Street Battle

Date: 1915
Description: Street scene from the film "The Birth of a Nation" featuring a battle between soldiers on foot and members of the Ku Klux Klan on horseback. The men on hor...
Photograph

Tourists Visit Universal City

Date: 1916
Description: Seven well-dressed tourists visit Universal City and pose with actor Neal Hart who is in cowboy costume and has his horse nearby. A water tower is visible ...
Photograph

Neal Hart on Location

Date: 1916
Description: Actor Neal Hart in cowboy costume on a horse being filmed with a Bell & Howell 2709 motion picture camera in the countryside near Universal City. A group o...
Poster

"Das Dorf am Fluss" (Village by the River) Film Poster

Date: 1965
Description: German film poster for the Dutch film, "Dorp aan de rivier." Silhouetted image in white of a man riding a horse, with a village in the background with a bl...
Poster

"Winter Wind" Film Poster

Date: 1970
Description: Grove Press International Film Festival film poster for the French-Hungarian film, "Sirokkó." Illustrated image of the faces of two women and a man, with o...
Historical Object

Christmas Album Page

Date: 1899
Description: An album page titled Christmas 1899 is decorated with watercolor painted figures. These include a sprig of mistletoe with two berries and the Fargo ...
Photograph

"Klondike" TV Show Set

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Description: The cast and crew of the TV show "Klondike" on an outdoor set designed like the main street of a western town. There is a camera operator on the left. Bann...
Photograph

Cisco Kid Publicity Still

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Description: Outdoor publicity still of Pancho, actor Leo Carillo, sitting on horseback. He is posing with his arms crossed in front of his chest, and a bird (stuffed?)...
Photograph

Cisco Kid and Pancho

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Description: Publicity photo of the Cisco Kid (Duncan Renaldo) and Pancho (Leo Carillo) standing next to their horses. They are both holding and pointing guns.

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