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| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph poster. The banner at top reads "Hoyt's A Midnight Bell," below which is the tag "Laughter Every Minute." The image shows an white-haired ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph poster. Top banner "Uncle Josh Spruceby" with insert left containing picture of Uncle Josh. The image depicts a scene from the play with a... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph poster for "Jesse James / The Missouri Outlaw" consisting of just the bust of the famous outlaw in full beard, with a red and white dotted... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | A frame enlargement from Thomas Edison's 1896 silent film "The Kiss" featuring May Irwin and John C. Rice reprising the controversial final scene of the pl... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Front view of the New Amsterdam Theatre (Theater), which advertises the 1925 Ziegfield Follies on its marquee and on street level the play "The Knife in th... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Extensive promotional exhibit in front of an unidentified New York theater for the 1938 Universal film "The Crime of Doctor Hallet" starring Ralph Bellamy.... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | The writer Vera Caspary, pen in hand, with male and female dancers handsomely posed behind her in a publicity still for the musical comedy play "Wedding in... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | The Dixieland Theatre in South Jacksonville, Florida, before it was converted by the Gaumont Company into a film studio. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Gloria Swanson backstage handling a Kliegl electric spotlight. She wears a plaid skirt and jacket. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Billie Burke, her baby daughter Patricia Burke Ziegfeld, and her husband Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. |
| Date: | 09 1879 |
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| Description: | Childhood portrait of Raymond Hitchcock and his two sisters. Hitchcock would become a well-known actor and producer on Broadway and a player in silent film... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Frank Keenan, Star of Pathé Plays, snapped with Mrs. Keenan, their two daughters, son-in-law, and grand children just before his departu... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Fred Stone, America's Foremost Comedian and his happy family photographed recently on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City. Left to Right: Car... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Page five of the playbill for performances of The Cradle Will Rock at the Windsor Theatre. The page credits Blitzstein, Orson Welles, and three of the cast... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | American stage and silent film actress Rose Tapley and her daughter Rosemary Holahan in a studio portrait autographed by Tapley. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Stage and silent film actor H.B. Warner holding his daughter Joan Warner in his arms. The child's mother was actress Rita Stanwood. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Scene still of an enormous, elaborate winter set populated by scores of dancers designed by Joseph Urban for "The Young Diana." |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Ruth Chatterton and Henry Miller are shown in a scene from the play La Tendresse. Chatterton sits in a chair while Miller stands above her with his ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Ruth Chatterton and Ralph Forbes posing in costumes from the play The Man With a Load of Mischief. Chatterton holds a riding crop and wears a long v... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Harry Myers and Marie Prevost perform in a makeshift home theater with footlights made from candles on canned goods in a scene still for the silent drama "... |
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