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| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Scene from the film "Romance of the Reaper" showing the building of the first practical reaper on the McCormick farm in Virginia. Actors playing the parts ... |
| Date: | 07 22 1950 |
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| Description: | U.W. Ph.D student and actor, who wished to remain anonymous and so went by the name George Spelvin, in stage productions. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A dramatic, glamorous portrait of a young Orson Welles holding a cigar. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Production still during the filming of "Citizen Kane." Orson Wells smokes a pipe and directs Dorothy Comingore (playing Susan Alexander Kane) from a wheel... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | James Stewart and Katharine Hepburn stand by a table with hors d'oeuvres and champagne in a scene still from "The Philadelphia Story" (MGM 1941). |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Director John Ford (in glasses and a hat) on the set of the film "The Searchers," with actors including John Wayne (left) and Doris del Rio. Behind them st... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Paramount Pictures studio portrait of Emil Jannings in coat and tie with a cigar in his mouth. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Close-up, low-key publicity portrait of Emil Jannings in shirt and tie holding a cigar to his mouth. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Movie still from the Twentieth Century-Fox movie "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit," featuring Gregory Peck (playing Tom Rath). He is smoking a cigarette a... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Dramaic scene still from the Twentieth Century-Fox movie "Bigger Than Life," featuring Walter Matthau (playing Wally Gibbs), James Mason (playing Ed Avery)... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Movie still from the Allied Artists film "Shock Corridor," featuring James Best (playing Stuart), Peter Breck (playing Johnny Barrett), and Hari Rhodes (pl... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Scene still from the American International film "The Trip," featuring Bruce Dern (playing John) and Peter Fonda (playing Paul Groves). Dern's character (i... |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of actor John Gilbert with a pipe in his mouth. |
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| Description: | Publicity still of actor Edward Everett Horton, posing with a cigarette. |
| Date: | 04 23 1986 |
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| Description: | This image was captured during the re-enactment of a crime that took place at a convenience store on Tuesday, April 22nd, 1986. The killing of Andrew N. Ne... |
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| Description: | Leo Gordon, Neville Brand and Joel Fluellen stand in front of Robert Osterloh, sitting, who is holding a pencil in one hand and a cigarette in the other. A... |
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| Description: | Neville Brand leans against a wall outside of a prison cell and smiles. He is pulling out a cigarette from a cigarette pack he holds in his hands. There is... |
| Date: | 04 19 1970 |
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| Description: | Lynn Fontanne, Sir Noel Coward, and Alfred Lunt seated at a table in the Pyrenees Restaurant after the Tony Awards presentations at which Lunt and Fontanne... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Fredric March, looking directly at the camera, poses with a pipe in his mouth for a publicity photograph for the film Nothing Sacred. |
| Date: | 07 22 1965 |
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| Description: | Several actors, all of whom are white and are wearing "yellowface" makeup to caricature Asians, are either dancing or looking on. Caption reads: "The Chine... |
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