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Description: | Harry Houdini in chains and ropes. He is tied to a wheel on a locomotive. |
Date: | 1954 |
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Description: | Actor Juan Chacon is shown leaning against a building studying his script on the set of "Salt of the Earth". |
Date: | 1978 |
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Description: | Author Alex Haley and actor LeVar Burton visit the grave of Haley's ancestor, the slave Kunte Kinte, in Spottsylvania County, Virginia. In the television ... |
Date: | 1961 |
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Description: | Scene still with Sandro Panseri, as Domenico Cantoni, a young clerk being chastised by his boss, in Ermanno Olmi's Il Posto (The Sound of Trumpets, ... |
Date: | 09 1918 |
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Description: | Silent film actor Niles Welch on the ground underneath the front of a 1918 Hudson Super Six touring limousine. Apparently he is using a carpenter's brace d... |
Date: | 09 1918 |
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Description: | Silent film actor Niles Welch is apparently using a wood saw on the engine of a 1918 Hudson Super Six touring limousine. Other carpenter's tools--a plane a... |
Date: | 1923 |
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Description: | W.C. Fields in a publicity still from the Broadway show "Poppy". He is seated in an ornate chair and is wearing a top hat, checkered pants and spats. |
Date: | 1941 |
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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... |
Date: | 1922 |
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Description: | Harry Houdini, the well-known escape artist, was born in Budapest, Hungary and raised in Appleton, Wisconsin. At the time of his immigration his name was s... |
Date: | 1922 |
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Description: | Quarter-length publicity portrait of renowned escape artist Harry Houdini. |
Date: | 1919 |
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Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of the renowned escape artist Harry Houdini. |
Date: | 1926 |
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Description: | Harry and Bess (Beatrice) Houdini in formal attire, the year of his death from acute appendicitis. |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Harry Houdini, world famous escape artist who spent his boyhood in Appleton, Wisconsin, sitting in a chair wrapped in chains in a scene from the silent fil... |
Date: | 1919 |
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Description: | Harry Houdini in a scene from the silent motion picture, "The Grim Game." |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Escape artist Harry Houdini being tortured by cannibals in the silent film "Terror Island." Like the other films in which Houdini stared, the plot was desi... |
Date: | 1921 |
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Description: | Forrest (played by John Bowers) holds an axe as Lilith (Leatrice Joy) gazes into his face in this scene still from the silent film "The Ace of Hearts." The... |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | In the foreground Ethel Grandin and Francis Ford embrace at the foot of a grave. Behind them are three covered wagons, numerous men and women on horseback,... |
Date: | 1956 |
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Description: | Movie still from the United Artists movie "Patterns," featuring Van Heflin (playing Fred Staples) and Everett Sloane (playing Mr. Ramsey). |
Date: | 1956 |
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Description: | Movie still from the Twentieth Century-Fox movie "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit," featuring Gregory Peck (playing Tom Rath). He is smoking a cigarette a... |
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Description: | Two astronauts cling to the back of a rocket. The image is from the television show Men Into Space. |
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