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Dickey Chapelle in Vietnam

Date: 11 1964
Description: Dickey Chapelle on the Don Phuc command post, in front of a stack of sandbags, on the Vietnam-Cambodia frontier. Chapelle resided at this post for 34 days,...
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Beach Toss

Date: 08 12 1984
Description: A bikini-clad woman snaps a self-portrait with a long cable release attached to a camera as she is tossed into the air by a group of men on the beach. Othe...
Photograph

Video Portraits

Date: 04 02 1987
Description: Three school children are posing for a video camera portrait, one attraction at a school fair sponsored by the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA).
Photograph

1950's Memories

Date: 07 15 1987
Description: A woman finishes a display of Bay View High School photographs from the 1950s as part of an any-year reunion at the Festa Italiana on the Summerfest ground...
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Vintage Airplanes

Date: 07 27 1988
Description: Vintage aircraft always attract attention. In 1988 on their way to the EAA convention, the national organization of owners of World War II trainers made a ...
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Robert Rauschenberg Making a Print

Date: 1951
Description: Robert Rauschenberg makes cyanotype art by shining a light over a nude female model who is lying on photosensitive blueprint paper. The print was to be use...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Elsie Janis

Date: 1912
Description: Original caption: "Elsie Janis who with Montgomery and Stone will open in the new musical comedy 'The Lady of the Slipper'..."
Photograph

Irene Castle in "Patria"

Date: 1917
Description: Irene Castle in a gauzy tulle and satin dress in a full-length pose in a publicity photograph for the silent film "Patria" (International 1917).
Photograph

Portrait of John Gilbert

Date: 1918
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of actor John Gilbert wearing a tuxedo.
Photograph

Production still for "Let's Live a Little"

Date: 1948
Description: Robert Cummings, left foreground with sunglasses in his hand, looks down upon a busy advertising photography studio in 1948 romantic comedy "Let's Live a L...
Poster

"Černý Petr" (Black Peter) Film Poster

Date: 1964
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster with a white background and black lettering. Along the bottom is a photographic image of three young men and a woman talking, s...
Poster

"Milenka" (The Mistress) Film Poster

Date: 1963
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster for the Swedish film "Alskarinnan." At the top is a cutout heart framing the waist-up photographic image of a naked woman (face...
Poster

"Přisně tajné" (For Eyes Only) Film Poster

Date: 1963
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster for the German film "Streng Geheim." Features a grainy photographic image of a hand and a face. The hand is holding a black and...
Poster

"Vojandy" (The Camp Followers) Film Poster

Date: 1966
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster for the Italian film "Le Soldatesse." A small photographic cut-out image of a woman's legs, along with an equally small cut-out...
Poster

"Mamma Roma" Film Poster

Date: 1963
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster for an Italian film. Photographic close-up image of a woman holding her hand up to her face.
Poster

"20 Hodin" (20 Hours) Film Poster

Date: 1966
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster featuring a black and white photographic image of an arm (and its shadow) reaching out towards a rifle.
Poster

"Souhvězdí panny" (Sign of the Virgin) Film Poster

Date: 1965
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster. Black and blue close-up image of two faces, one in front of the other. Their eyes are closed and have stars pasted on the eyel...
Poster

"Kočār do vīdně" (Carriage to Vienna) Film Poster

Date: 1966
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster. Black and mustard yellow image of a carriage wheel in the bottom right corner and part of a face in the top left corner.
Poster

"Černý tulipán" (The Black Tulip) Film Poster

Date: 1967
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster for the French film "La tulipe noire." Collage image of a swashbuckler dressed in black and holding a sword while standing in a...
Poster

"Die Hand in der Falle" (The Hand in the Trap) Film Poster

Date: 1966
Description: German film poster for the Argentine film, "La mano en la trampa." Black and white photographic image of a woman standing and wearing a dress with the rota...

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