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| Description: | Harry Houdini in chains and ropes. He is tied to a wheel on a locomotive. |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Fredric March (seated) with Florence Eldridge (Mrs. March) and the noted news analyst Cecil Brown. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | During a visit to Japan, Danny Kaye, then one of the best known comedians and actors, prompted a typical response from Martha Brown, the wife of Cecil Brow... |
| 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: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of the renowned escape artist Harry Houdini. |
| 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... |
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| Description: | A casual portrait of Spencer Tracy wearing overalls and holding a long stick. There is a pot at his feet. |
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| Description: | Spencer Tracy poses on railroad tracks holding a hat. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A man and woman look out of a window at people picking cotton in a field. The two are well-dressed. |
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| Description: | Two astronauts cling to the back of a rocket. The image is from the television show Men Into Space. |
| Date: | 07 31 1959 |
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| Description: | William Lundigan, as Colonel Ed McCauley, and Ross Elliott as Dr. George Batton, stand on the lunar landscape set of the television show Men Into Space. Th... |
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| Description: | Four astronauts, including Colonel Ed McCauley, played by William Lundigan, struggle with oxygen tanks. They are on the lunar landscape set of the televisi... |
| Date: | 06 11 1959 |
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| Description: | An actor, dressed as an astronaut, is seen on the lunar landscape set of the television show Men Into Space. He is standing near the leg of a huge s... |
| Date: | 06 18 1959 |
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| Description: | Two actors, dressed as astronauts, are seen on the set of the television show Men Into Space. The two look like they are trying to repair something.... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | The blacksmith's assistant (played by Buster Keaton) files his nails as his employer (Joe Roberts) looms over him in a scene still from the 1922 silent com... |
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