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| 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: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Parked limousine with open doors on a Havana street at the end of the Cuban Revolution. Two men in the foreground appear to be taking photographs of the ve... |
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| Description: | Parade celebrating Fidel Casto's arrival in Havana at the end of the Cuban Revolution. 26th of July Movement soldiers are riding on top of a captured Sher... |
| Date: | 10 1984 |
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| Description: | Tim Finch and Kay Finch of the Perry Creek Cranberry Company. In the background men work in the cranberry marsh to harvest the berries. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | The camp construction executive and workers gather to pose for a group portrait in Panama. The executive is sitting in a chair and the workers are gathered... |
| Date: | 06 1942 |
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| Description: | 3rd engineer aboard the United Fruit Company's S.S. Santa Marta with a telegraph machine. The engineer is shirtless with a towel around his neck. He... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Men working on a Marine Aircraft Group plane at Ulithi airport. One man is standing near the nose of the plan, looking inside. He is shirtless and wearing ... |
| Date: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Private Winnie L. Cockrell, a carpenter from the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve, at the Mauna Loa Ridge encampment in Honolulu. Cockrell is wea... |
| Date: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Private first class Ann D. Dozier, a refrigerating engineer from the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve, posing for a photograph at the Mauna Loa R... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Juan Almeida Bosque, operating chief of the Cuban Air Force, hammering a spike into a block of concrete with the help of a construction worker. |
| Date: | 01 06 1972 |
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| Description: | Bartender, Sandra Gaertner and her fabulous hair standing behind the bar at Walter's on North Avenue. Two male customers are seated at the bar in the backg... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Cover of the book "Century of the Reaper" by Cyrus McCormick III ("Cyrusie"). The cover includes a color illustration of the senior Cyrus McCormick testing... |
| 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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