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| 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: | 02 02 1949 |
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| Description: | Will N. Wells, of the Wells Printing Company, celebrating his eighty-fourth birthday with friends. Left to right: John G. MacFarland, an actor; J.J. McMana... |
| Date: | 07 22 1953 |
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| Description: | Portraying Diamond Jim Brady and Diamond Lil at the Blackhawk Country Club Gay 90's party are Robert and Harriet Narowetz. They are being served a drink by... |
| Date: | 05 15 1933 |
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| Description: | A typed letter from W.C. Fields to Phillip Goodman. It is full of personal news items. In the letter he mentions that "Prohibition ends today." |
| Date: | 01 05 1961 |
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| Description: | Scenes from "Here We Go Again", an amateur variety show put on as entertainment for the 1961 Twelfth Night party at Nakoma School. Edwin Steul, left, and S... |
| Date: | 03 24 1950 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a farewell dinner menu from the Italian Line ship Saturnia, with two Commedia dell' Arte characters: Tartaglia, a rotund figure who w... |
| Date: | 03 24 1950 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a farewell dinner menu from the Italian Line ship Saturnia, with two Commedia dell' Arte characters: Pantalone, a black masked figure... |
| Date: | 03 24 1950 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a farewell dinner menu from the Italian Line ship Saturnia, with three Commedia dell' Arte characters: Corallina, who wears a black m... |
| Date: | 03 24 1950 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a farewell dinner menu from the Italian Line ship Saturnia, with three Commedia dell' Arte characters: Stenterello, who wears a jacke... |
| Date: | 1981 |
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| Description: | Gate fold front covers and interior of dinner menu from The Backstage, with a line drawing of film actors Greta Garbo and John Gilbert on the front cover p... |
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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 ... |
| Date: | 10 20 1953 |
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| Description: | Typewritten letter from Ring Lardner, Jr to Howard Da Silva after Lardner saw the play "The World of Sholom Aleichem." Lardner praises the production and t... |
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