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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle getting into a small airplane. She is wearing a pilot's helmet, goggles and a scarf, and is carrying a parachute. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | W.C. Fields in a publicity still from the Broadway show "Poppy". He is seated in an ornate chair and is wearing a top hat, checkered pants and spats. |
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| Description: | Ed Sullivan and Shari Lewis pose with puppets Topo Gigio and Lambchop. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A dramatic, glamorous portrait of a young Orson Welles holding a cigar. |
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| Description: | Portrait of a young, handsome Orson Welles with an inscription. |
| Date: | 09 23 1933 |
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| Description: | Portrait of a young Orson Wells wearing a suit, heavily retouched to isolate him from the background. |
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| Description: | The cast of the television show "Happy Days" pose in a telephone booth. From top to bottom are Ron Howard, Donny Most, Anson Williams, and Henry Winkler. |
| Date: | 08 08 1984 |
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| Description: | The winner of the sauerkraut eating contest, Don Bauer, standing triumphantly before his clean plate. A U.S. flag and a sign for the 34th Kraut Festival ad... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Photograph of Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis, stars of Columbia Pictures' "Hellcats of the Navy." |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 2010 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Maija Liimatainen of Monroe, Wisconsin with her soap box derby car posed on the racing hill at Derby Downs, Akron, Ohio. Maija won the super st... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Herb Kohl as President of the Kohl Corporation. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini, the well-known escape artist, was born in Budapest, Hungary and raised in Appleton, Wisconsin. At the time of his immigration his name was s... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length publicity portrait of renowned escape artist Harry Houdini. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of the renowned escape artist Harry Houdini. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Harry and Bess (Beatrice) Houdini in formal attire, the year of his death from acute appendicitis. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini, world famous escape artist who spent his boyhood in Appleton, Wisconsin, sitting in a chair wrapped in chains in a scene from the silent fil... |
| Date: | 10 1984 |
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| Description: | Tim Finch and Kay Finch of the Perry Creek Cranberry Company. In the background men work in the cranberry marsh to harvest the berries. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Captain Don Knowlton, a U.S. Marine division Surgeon, posing for a photograph outdoors in Okinawa, Japan. He is wearing fatigues and a helmet and is standi... |
| Date: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Gwen Jensen, a female flight nurse, poses for a photograph during flight training at Alameda Naval Air Strip. In an anoxic faint chamber, used to simulate ... |
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