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Woman at Work

Date: 03 24 1969
Description: Young woman at work designing a magazine cover.
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Publicity Still from "The Flying Nun"

Date: 08 17 1967
Description: A publicity still from the ABC television situation comedy, "The Flying Nun," which starred Sally Field (center), as Sister Bertrille. With her are actors ...
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Dickey Chapelle

Date: 1940
Description: "She's Ready to Defend America," a portrait of Georgette Louise Meyer (aka Dickey Chapelle), as a member of the Women Flyers of America, an organization fo...
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Chapelle with Soldiers and Woman

Date: 1958
Description: Dickey Chapelle posing in Cuba with Major Antonio Lusson, and a group of male and female soldiers.
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Dicky Chapelle in Iwo Okinawa

Date: 1945
Description: Dicky Chapelle gazing into the distance, during her Iwo Okinawa period. She is wearing her War Correspondent uniform with hat. Possibly with camera slung o...
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Dicky Chapelle in Iwo Okinawa

Date: 1945
Description: Dicky Chapelle gazing into the distance, during her Iwo Okinawa period. She is wearing her War Correspondent uniform with hat. Possibly with camera slung o...
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Robert Rauschenberg Making a Print

Date: 1951
Description: Robert Rauschenberg makes cyanotype art by shining a light over a nude female model who is lying on photosensitive blueprint paper. The print was to be use...
Painting

The Blacksmith Shop

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Description: A town scene featuring the blacksmith shop and horses.
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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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Mr. & Mrs. Houdini

Date: 1926
Description: Harry and Bess (Beatrice) Houdini in formal attire, the year of his death from acute appendicitis.
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Nancy Gates on Men Into Space

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Description: Nancy Gates, who plays Renza Hale on an episode of the television show Men Into Space, is shown in a spacesuit and helmet on the lunar landscape set...
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Rachel Robinson and Ruby Dee

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Description: Rachel Robinson and actress Ruby Dee during the production of the 1950 film "The Jackie Robinson Story." They are in front of a fence at a baseball field. ...
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Carmen Dillon

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Description: Art Director Carmen Dillon and an unidentified man are viewing the construction of one of the sets from the 1948 film "Hamlet." Another unidentified man is...
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Julie Harris, Borlis Karloff and Kermit Bloomgarden

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Description: Julie Harris, Boris Karloff, Kermit Bloomgarden and his wife Virginia Kaye are standing near a table at the Thespian Theatre Club Award dinner. Harris and ...
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"The Great Dictator" Press Photograph

Date: 10 13 1940
Description: Charlie Chaplin sitting talking to reporters, about six of whom are visible. A small table covered with glasses of ice water, a coffee cup, cigarettes, etc...
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"The Great Dictator" Press Photograph

Date: 10 13 1940
Description: Charlie Chaplin is sitting on the far left with his arm draped over the chair and is talking to a circle of about twelve seated reporters during a meeting ...
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Gladys Drew

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Description: Studio portrait of actress and author Gladys Drew. She wears a dark hat with a plume on top which is tied underneath her chin. Gladys was the first wife of...
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Helen Ferguson sitting at desk talking on the telephone

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Description: Actress, now press agent, Helen Ferguson sits at a desk and talks on the telephone. She is holding receivers for two telephones - she holds one to her ear...

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