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| Description: | Harry Houdini in chains and ropes. He is tied to a wheel on a locomotive. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Jack Carson at the age of ten posing on front steps wearing a hat and leaning on a walking cane. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Double head and shoulders shot of Spencer Tracy in a sailor hat, from when he was in the Navy in the last days of World War I. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | A classic Orson Welles publicity still showing him looking intensely into the camera while gesturing with his hands. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Frederic March as Freddy Bickel, photographed on the steps of his fraternity house when he was president of the 1920 senior class. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Agnes Moorehead is shown at about 4 years of age. She wears a white dress stands beside a flowering bush. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Publicity portrait of Valda Valkyrien, known as "The Movie Star of Denmark." |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Baby Rose Marie is shown singing at an NBC radio microphone. This is seen in the National Union Radio Corporation publicity booklet "Radio Stars of Today." |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Candid shot of Fred Coe, producer of "Playwrights '56," sitting at his production board. |
| Date: | 01 13 1967 |
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| Description: | Dejected skier at home with cast and crutches, after breaking her leg practicing for competition. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | The glamorous dancer Irene Castle wearing a World War I "Preparedness Uniform" of her own design. The dress was based on the uniform worn by her husband an... |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright shortly after he arrived in Chicago. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Howard Hughes (1905-1976), aviator, motion picture producer, millionaire playboy, business leader and eccentric. This portrait was probably mad... |
| Date: | 09 21 1962 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle poses with Leo Cherne outside the Hudson Institute. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length portrait of a young Dickey Meyer Chapelle posing in front of a fireplace mantel wearing a blouse and dress pants. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Dickey Chapelle wearing a white shirt, white flight headgear and goggles. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Dickey Chapelle in uniform with a "war correspondent" patch on her sleeve. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Richard M. Nixon, probably as a congressional candidate in 1946 when he first demonstrated his ability to use Communism as a way to electoral victory, in t... |
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| Description: | Samuel Goldwyn and Edna Ferber pose together wearing fashionable attire. |
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