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Bing Crosby Getting Into International Scout Pickup

Date: 1964
Description: Actor and singer Bing Crosby getting out of a drizzling rain and into an International Scout 4x4 pickup during his 23rd Annual Pro-Amateur Golf Championshi...
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Edward Murrow with Fishing Rod

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Description: Edward R. Murrow stands with his fishing pole while smoking a cigarette on the shore of a lake in northern Wisconsin.
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Edward R. Murrow Fishing

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Description: Edward R. Murrow sits in a boat smoking a cigarette, having just caught a Walleyed Pike while fishing in a lake in northern Wisconsin. His unidentified com...
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Radio Stars with Mechanical Cow at "A Century of Progress"

Date: 03 24 1933
Description: Radio stars Jack Pearl and Cliff Hal posing with a mechanical cow and milker in the International Harvester exhibit at the "A Century of Progress" world's ...
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Cy Young

Date: 1948
Description: Cy Young was widely regarded as the greatest baseball pitcher of all times. Cy Young, 80 years old, who resided in Newcomerstown, Ohio was invited to speak...
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Robert Bloch at Table with Janet Leigh

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Description: Robert Bloch (wearing eyeglasses), the author of Psycho, sitting at a table with Janet Leigh. His wife Marion Bloch stands behind him. The man in the bow t...
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"Citizen Kane" Production Still

Date: 1941
Description: Production still during the filming of "Citizen Kane." Orson Wells smokes a pipe and directs Dorothy Comingore (playing Susan Alexander Kane) from a wheel...
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Cesar Chavez in Wisconsin

Date: 1967
Description: Cesar Chavez, the leader of United Farm Workers, is standing at the center of the photograph surrounded by members of the press. Behind him is a photograph...
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Edward Everett Horton Publicity Still

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Description: Publicity still of actor Edward Everett Horton, posing with a cigarette.
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"Double Indemnity" Lobby Card

Date: 1944
Description: Lobby card for the Paramount film "Double Indemnity," featuring a tinted scene from the movie, with leads Barbara Stanwyck (as Phyllis Dietrichson), Fred M...
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Lunt, Fontanne, and Noel Coward

Date: 1937
Description: Alfred Lunt, Noel Coward, and Lynn Fontanne walking together on the Ten Chimneys property.
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Morris Rubin, Editor of The Progressive

Date: 04 14 1964
Description: An informal portrait of Morris Rubin sitting at his desk, decked with a glass ashtray, pack of cigarette and matchbook, rotary-dial telephone and papers. S...
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Arthur Miller

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of Arthur Miller smoking a pipe while at a rehearsal for the play "After the Fall."
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Faye Emerson and Eleanor Roosevelt

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Description: Faye Emerson sitting next to Eleanor Roosevelt. The two are both wearing nice, but casual dresses. Faye was married to Eleanor's son Elliott from 1944-1950...

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