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Richard Barthelmess Writing

Date: 1917
Description: A water-damaged, thoroughly-retouched publicity still of Richard Barthelmess sitting at a writing desk. It apparently appeared in "Photoplay Magazine" some...
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Adlai Stevenson

Date: 10 08 1955
Description: Adlai Stevenson is seated in a room with several other men.
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Article Featuring Richard Ely

Date: 02 1930
Description: An article titled "Institute for Research in Land Economics and Public Utilities to Establish Outpost in China" features Professor Richard Ely.
Photograph

Writers on Social Questions

Date: 12 1900
Description: A composite of photographs of "writers on social questions". Pictured are 1. Henry D. Lloyd 2. Richard T. Ely 3. Benjamin Kidd 4. Rev. George D. Herron 5. ...
Photograph

Frame 30: Man Learning to Read and Write

Date: 1964
Description: A man is seated at a desk, writing and smoking a cigarette.
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Frame 34: Woman Signing Up - Freedom Registration

Date: 1964
Description: A woman in the foreground writes on a pad while a young woman looks on from a doorway.
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Robert Doyle at His Typewriter

Date: 04 16 1945
Description: Robert Doyle (shirtles), works at the typewriter in his quarters in the BOQ (Bachelor Officer Quarters) #5, room 110, at CINCPAC (Commander in Chief, Pacif...
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Irna Phillips Dictacting to Her Secretary

Date: 10 1940
Description: Irna Phillips sits at her desk dictating a letter to her secretary.
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Wilbur J. Cohen with Natalie Spingarn

Date: 1968
Description: Wilbur J. Cohen with Natalie Davis Spingarn, a speech writer and special assistant to Cohen in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. There is an...
Print

Gridiron Club Sixty-Fifth Birthday Menu

Date: 05 13 1950
Description: Menu, mounted on board, for the sixty-fifth birthday dinner of the Gridiron Club, with a cartoon by Jim (James Thomas) Berryman of Father Time carrying a s...
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Eleanor Roosevelt and Millard Lampell

Date: 1963
Description: Eleanor Roosevelt and Millard Lampell are seated together looking at a notebook or script.
Photograph

Dorothy H. Wright

Date: 11 11 1920
Description: Portrait of Dorothy H. Wright sitting at a desk, holding a pen. On the back of the image she has written: "To A.W. Lawson from Dorothy H. Wright, Nov. 11 -...
Photograph

Alice E. Smith

Date: 04 01 1973
Description: A candid portrait of Alice E. Smith sitting behind a typewriter. She appears to be sitting on an outdoor patio, and is writing on a pad of paper.
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Dad Makes Notes

Date: 08 1915
Description: Howard Greene ("Dad") sitting on a stool outdoors writing in a notebook.
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Dad Writes in the Journal

Date: 1909
Description: Howard Greene (center) writing in the Presque Isle River Travel Journal at camp. Howard T. is sitting next to him.
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Adam Davis

Date: 06 28 1967
Description: View across desk towards a man talking on a telephone and writing in a notebook. Caption reads: "Adam Davis, who is an insurance salesman, represents the g...
Poster

Comment ils écrivent L'Histoire

Date: 1918
Description: Poster depicting three soldiers resting on a battlefield. One soldier is smoking a pipe, one soldier is writing a letter, and the third soldier is looking ...
Photograph

Eleanor Holt Writing or Drawing

Date: 1906
Description: Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Eleanor Holt sitting at a small table, writing or drawing on paper, with classmates kneeling and standing...

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