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| 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. |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Edna Ferber looking to her right, wearing a string of pearls. |
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| Description: | Head and shoulder portrait of Daisy Bates, head of the Arkansas NAACP and a key figure in the Little Rock school desegregation crisis of September 1957. |
| 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: | 09 30 1988 |
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| Description: | Young girl holding a book about child care written by Dr. Benjamin Spock, M.D. She is holding the book upside down. |
| 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: | 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: | 07 15 1987 |
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| 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... |
| 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: | 01 13 1965 |
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| Description: | Toddlers looking into the camera with tears in their eyes. They were found abandoned at the Central YWCA. |
| Date: | 12 18 1966 |
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| Description: | A man models what was touted as the latest styles for men. |
| Date: | 06 1971 |
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| Description: | Barber Mike Godsell sitting back and relaxing in his shop. |
| 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: | 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. |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Myles Horton smiling and leaning his cheek against his hand. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Mrs. Roseline Peck, born 1808 - died 1898, the first white woman in Madison, Wisconsin. She was the wife of the first tavern keeper, E... |
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| Description: | Portrait of Myles Horton, cofounder of the Highlander Folk School. |
| Date: | 12 06 1957 |
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| Description: | Melba Pattillo, later Melba Pattillo Beals, of the Little Rock Nine. |
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