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Houdini, Harry

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Description: Harry Houdini in chains and ropes. He is tied to a wheel on a locomotive.
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Jack Carson

Date: 1920
Description: Jack Carson at the age of ten posing on front steps wearing a hat and leaning on a walking cane.
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Spencer Tracy in Sailor Hat

Date: 1918
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.
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Orson Welles

Date: 1975
Description: A classic Orson Welles publicity still showing him looking intensely into the camera while gesturing with his hands.
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Frederic March on Fraternity House Steps

Date: 1920
Description: Frederic March as Freddy Bickel, photographed on the steps of his fraternity house when he was president of the 1920 senior class.
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Buster Keaton and Seneca Grape Juice Executive

Date: 1965
Description: Buster Keaton (right) appraises a costume for a Seneca Grape Juice TV commercial with J. Wolcott, the company's Vice President.
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Actor in Black Hawk Play

Date: 1857
Description: An actor in an Indian headdress and jewelry for performance of "Black Hawk, or Lily of the Prairie," a drama written by Mary Elizabeth Mears and presented ...
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Actor as Army Officer

Date: 1857
Description: An actor dressed as an army officer, holding a saber, for the performance of "Black Hawk, or Lily of the Prairie," a drama written by Mary Elizabeth Mears ...
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Roundy Coughlin on the Orpheum Theatre Stage

Date: 05 27 1939
Description: Roundy Coughlin in a police uniform, standing in front of a motorcycle and a life-sized poster of four movie stars on a tandem bicycle. This event occurred...
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Clyde Cook in Costume

Date: 11 27 1931
Description: Copy photograph of Actor Clyde Cook in costume, for the RKO Orpheum Theatre, with a signature that reads "Blosey, Chicago."
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John Wayne Poses with International Truck

Date: 1967
Description: Actor John Wayne standing next to an International 1000B truck. He may be on the set of a production titled "Hellfighters."
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"Our Daily Bread" Movie Still

Date: 08 16 1929
Description: A woman, possibly actress Mary Duncan, sits behind the wheel of a McCormick-Deering tractor while a man stands beside her on the set of the Fox Film produc...
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Madison Theater Guild's "The Hasty Heart"

Date: 02 01 1949
Description: Don Trachte, an actor in Madison Theater Guild's production of "The Hasty Heart," in his role as a "knitting Australian." Also included is a second negativ...
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Madison Theater Guild's "The Hasty Heart"

Date: 01 02 1949
Description: Conrad Harris, St. Louis, in his role as Blossom in Madison Theater Guild's production of "The Hasty Heart." Also included is a second negative of a portra...
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Madison Theater Guild's "The Hasty Heart"

Date: 02 01 1949
Description: Vernon Smith as Kiwi, a New Zealander, in Madison Theater Guild's production of "The Hasty Heart". Also included is a second negative of a portrait of the ...
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Madison Theater Guild's "The Hasty Heart"

Date: 02 01 1949
Description: Joe Klein as Yank, the only American among soldiers in a Burma hospital in Madison Theater Guild's production of "The Hasty Heart". Also included is a seco...
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Madison Theater Guild's "The Hasty Heart"

Date: 02 01 1949
Description: Paul Hunter, Jr., as Lachlen of Clan Cameron in Madison Theater Guild's production of "The Hasty Heart". Also included is a second negative of a portrait o...
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Madison Theater Guild's "The Hasty Heart"

Date: 02 01 1949
Description: Jack Tremblay, Jr., as an orderly in a British hospital in Burma in Madison Theater Guild's production of "The Hasty Heart". Also included is a second nega...
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Madison Theater Guild's "The Hasty Heart"

Date: 02 01 1949
Description: Bob Snively as Tommy, an English soldier in a British hospital in Burma in Madison Theater Guild's production of "The Hasty Heart". Also included is a seco...
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Madison Theater Guild's "The Hasty Heart"

Date: 02 01 1949
Description: Ray Stanley as a doctor nicknamed 'Cobwebs' in Madison Theater Guild's production of "The Hasty Heart". Also included is a second negative of a portrait of...

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