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Electric Cooking with Meinhardt Raabe

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Description: Meinhardt Raabe, dressed as Little Oscar, standing with two women on a television soundstage kitchen.
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Ada Lois James with Rifle

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Description: Ada [& friend] Charlie. Ada is pretending to shoot an apple from the head of her friend Charlie, who is posing kneeling with his arms folded. There is a pa...
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Fox Hearst Crew Testing Cameras at Walnut Grove

Date: 1929
Description: Caption on back of photograph states: "Fox Hearst crew testing camera focus on scene which introduces Cyrus Hall McCormick for the first time in the film, ...
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Alfred Hitchcock on Set

Date: 1940
Description: Alfred Hitchcock is seen walking on the set of the film "Foreign Correspondent." He is wearing a suit and a trench coat and is walking towards the camera.
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Joel McCrea and Laraine Day

Date: 1940
Description: Laraine Day takes a photograph of Joel McCrea; both are smiling. Both are dressed very nicely. In the background a crew member looks at them from a raised ...
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Theresa Lioness Club Fashion Show

Date: 10 17 1990
Description: On Wednesday, Oct. 17, 1990, the Theresa Lioness Club sponsored their 3rd annual fashion show. Amidst a festive setting on stage and G & Z's Hall in Theres...
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Isaac Singer with George Zieber

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Description: Actors portraying I.M. Singer and his friend George Zieber with the first sewing machine.
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Singer Examining a Sewing Machine

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Description: Actors portray I.M. Singer and George Zieber examining an early sewing machine.
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"Riot in Cell Block 11" Production Still

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Description: Actor Neville Brand, director Don Siegel, and another actor joke around on the set of the film "Riot in Cell Block 11." Brand holds Siegel as the other act...
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"Riot in Cell Block 11" Production Still

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Description: Actor Neville Brand, on the left, and another actor in the center with a knife in his belt, talk with director Don Siegel, far right. They are on the set o...
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Neville Brand and Whit Bissell

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Description: Actor Neville Brand stands behind actor Whit Bissell while holding a knife to his throat. They are on the set of the film "Riot in Cell Block 11."
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"Riot in Cell Block 11" Production Still

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Description: Long shot of a scene from the film "Riot in Cell Block 11." In the background, Neville Brand holds a knife to the throat of Whit Bissell. Two guards and a ...
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Leo Gordon

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Description: Leo Gordon holds a knife and looks around a stone wall. He is outside on the set of the film "Riot in Cell Block 11."
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Walter Wanger on Set

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Description: Walter Wanger is seen talking to a man on the set of the film "Riot in Cell Block 11." A large microphone boom on wheels is directly behind them. They are ...
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Minow and Brodemas

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Description: John Brodemas (sp?) and Newton Minow are seated at a desk together, which has a microphone and a telephone. Behind them is a fake window with a view of the...
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Newton Minow and Harold Ostertag

Date: 07 30 1961
Description: Newton Minow, chairman of the Federal Communications Comission (FCC), and Harold C. Ostertag, Report From Congress representative are seated together with ...
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Margaret McGuire Promoting Cheese

Date: 1952
Description: Margaret McGuire, the 1948 Alice in Dairyland, on WAFM-TV, Channel 13, with another woman promoting Wisconsin Cheese.
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"Cisco Kid" Still

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Description: Outdoor Set of the TV show "Cisco Kid." The Cisco Kid has his hand on the shoulder of a man who is is holding onto a woman. A man holding a microphone boom...
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"Hay Foot, Straw Foot"

Date: 1919
Description: Thaddeus Briggs (Spottiswoode Aitken) is handing his grandson Ulysses S. Grant Briggs (Charles Ray) something in a still for the 1919 film "Hay Foot, Straw...
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TV Museum

Date: 05 25 1955
Description: Keith Hinsman, Tyke Hooke, and John Jacques discuss an Inuit pipe for TV Museum. A WHA-TV camera filming the discussion is in the foreground, and an...

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