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"Scarlet Days"

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Description: Still from the film "Scarlet Days." A group of men and women are standing on a street and pointing toward a woman who is leaning against a pole. A number o...
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Visiting Japanese Students at Leon's Frozen Custard

Date: 1980
Description: View across parking lot towards a group of Japanese woman posing in front of Leon's Frozen Custard. Caption reads: "Visiting Japanese students posed in fro...
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Buster Keaton

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Description: Publicity photo of Buster Keaton sitting cross-legged on a stool and holding a book in front of a piano. He is looking off to the side.
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Buster Keaton

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Description: Publicity photograph of Buster Keaton. He is standing in front of a backdrop holding a flower up in one hand, with his other hand resting on his leg.
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Roscoe Arbuckle

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Description: Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle sitting in a chair holding a dog in his lap. Women wearing bathing suits are sitting and standing around him.
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Roscoe Arbuckle and Buster Keaton in The Bell Boy

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Description: Scene still from the 1918 silent film The Bell Boy. Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle is standing at the center of a group, wearing a plaid suit. He is holdin...
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Al St. John

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Description: Al St. John and an actress sitting close together on a bench in a scene from, or a publicity still for, an unidentified silent film. Seven boys and girls a...
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Washing Their Car

Date: 11 17 1986
Description: A man and his son washing their car together. Caption reads: "Victor Driver, 4, helped his stepfather, Thomas Holder, wash his car Sunday on N. 13th St. as...
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Railroad Worker

Date: 10 13 1977
Description: A man wearing a hardhat and carrying a tool is walking along railroad tracks. Caption reads: "A railroad worker walked along a line in the Menomonee Valley...
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Welcome Home to Havana

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Description: Henry Weiner, United Artists manager in Cuba, is greeted by staff and friends upon his return to Havana after a three week vacation in New York with his wi...
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C.L. Shearer

Date: 10 16 1967
Description: View across sidewalk towards a man sitting on a bench outside a storefront with a screen door that has a sign on it for Purity Bread. An American flag is h...
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Jimmy Cliff

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Description: Jimmy Cliff jumping up during a performance at the Orpheum Theater.
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Problem Solved

Date: 01 04 1978
Description: A man on a ladder is using a snow rake to rake his roof. The ladder is propped against the portico of his house. Caption reads: "PROBLEM SOLVED — Homeowner...
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Successful Hunt

Date: 11 29 1987
Description: Seven men are posing in a barn with eight killed deer strung up behind them. Caption reads: "SUCCESSFUL HUNT — Every member of this hunting party bagged a ...
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Dale Schneider and Warren Wagner

Date: 11 26 1981
Description: Two men are dragging a killed deer by its antlers out of a forest. One man is holding a rifle. Caption reads: "Dale Schneider, left, of Maribel, and Warren...
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Phillip Moreland

Date: 10 23 1985
Description: A man us sitting on concrete steps, and is wearing a beret, eyeglasses, and a sweater. Caption reads: "Phillip Moreland, a Milwaukee longshoreman idled by ...
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William Dieterle and Madline Carroll

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Description: Director William Dieterle, actress Madeline Carroll and other unidentified cast and crew during the production of the 1938 film "Blockade" on a sound stage...
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William Dieterle

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Description: Director William Dieterle is sitting on a camera dolly on tracks with unidentified crew. They are filming a scene from the 1938 film "Blockade."
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Jackie Robinson Behind a Movie Camera

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Description: Jackie Robinson is looking at a movie camera on the set of the 1950 film "The Jackie Robinson Story." He and four other members of the film crew are standi...
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Ruby Dee and Jackie Robinson

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Description: Actors Ruby Dee and Jackie Robinson outdoors filming a scene from "The Jackie Robinson Story." Dee is getting makeup applied or touched up, probably by mak...

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