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| Description: | Harry Houdini in chains and ropes. He is tied to a wheel on a locomotive. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Buster Keaton (right) appraises a costume for a Seneca Grape Juice TV commercial with J. Wolcott, the company's Vice President. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Actor John Wayne standing next to an International 1000B truck. He may be on the set of a production titled "Hellfighters." |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper." The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape... |
| Date: | 08 17 1950 |
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| Description: | Gloria Link placed second for outstanding performance in the Wisconsin Players' summer season. This was according to a poll of the playbill's directors con... |
| 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: | 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: | 07 12 1955 |
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| Description: | Comedic actor Joe E. Brown holding a baseball, with an unidentified man standing behind him.. |
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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. |
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