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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: | 04 02 1987 |
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| Description: | Three school children are posing for a video camera portrait, one attraction at a school fair sponsored by the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA). |
| Date: | 08 21 1917 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "The above picture is the first that has been taken of Mrs. Vernon Castle and her soldier husband since he returned to this country aft... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | "She's Ready to Defend America," a portrait of Georgette Louise Meyer (aka Dickey Chapelle), as a member of the Women Flyers of America, an organization fo... |
| Date: | 03 1942 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle seated by an open window, wearing the correspondent arm band. Taken at time of her first recognition by the War Department as Look's... |
| Date: | 09 21 1962 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle poses with Leo Cherne outside the Hudson Institute. |
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| Description: | Samuel Goldwyn and Edna Ferber pose together wearing fashionable attire. |
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| Description: | Portrait of Edna Ferber seated and writing with a pen. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Publicity still from the silent film The Birth of a Nation of Mae Marsh with her hands held to her face. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle wearing correspondent armband and taking a self-portrait in mirror. Taken at time of her first recognition by War Department as "Look's" ph... |
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| Description: | Close-up of Dickey Chapelle as she looks up at something in the sky. |
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