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| Date: | 06 30 1921 |
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| Description: | Over-the-shoulder portrait of the writer Anita Loos made by Charles James Fox in New York. With her bobbed hair and sharp sense of humor, Loos was the epit... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Portrait of screenwriter Anita Loos with braided hair by Apeda Studio of New York. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | The writer Anita Loos and the director John Emerson looking over a script on a film set. Emerson has a pince-nez on a cord and sits in a director's chair. ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A water-damaged, thoroughly-retouched publicity still of Richard Barthelmess sitting at a writing desk. It apparently appeared in "Photoplay Magazine" some... |
| Date: | 03 10 1902 |
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| Description: | Syl, wearing a sailor suit and cap, carves his name into a tree. To the left is a deck suspended over a steep hill. Below is a lake or river. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | International Harvester dealer Chester E. Seif signs a pledge of cooperation with Governor Heil's "MacArthur Week" scrap drive. H.J. Brosnahan (left), mana... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Front and back of a postcard sent from Agnes to William (Bill) Quinney. The front features a print of the Cliffs of Dover in pastel tones while, on the ba... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | The front and back of a postcard featuring a drawing of the Detroit skyline as seen from Windsor, Ontario that was sent by Alice and Floyd Quinney during t... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Front of a postcard from Dr. Rolland Anderson to Floyd Quinney and his family depicting mounted cowboys herding cattle on the range. The sky above the sc... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Back of a cowboy postcard sent by Dr. Rolland Anderson to Floyd Quinney and his family. A Curt Teich Art Colortone published by Sanborn Souvenir Co., Denv... |
| Date: | 07 09 1951 |
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| Description: | Dr. Eloise Gerry at her desk at the United States Forest Products Laboratory where she is a distinguished wood technologist. Dr. Gerry, whose research arti... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Holiday card from an employee to their employer. On a white sheet of paper with holly on it, with a green background. The text reads: "Merry Christmas to a... |
| Date: | 02 25 1956 |
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| Description: | A typed letter written to Myles Horton of Highlander Folk School from Rosa L. Parks. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Front page of sheet music to "Those Segregated Blues" words and music written by Milt Klamen. A song written about segregation and equal rights for all. |
| Date: | 02 24 1954 |
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| Description: | Luida Sanders (right), a "writer's aide" and a state public health educator, presents first and second prizes to two writers and patients at the Madison V... |
| Date: | 06 1942 |
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| Description: | A cat is sitting atop a chalkboard with blackout orders written on it as a crew member from the United Fruit Company's S.S. Santa Marta fixes the sm... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Informal meeting in the woods in Oriente Province during the Cuban Revolution. Fidel Castro is reclining on a hammock talking to a crouching man in the for... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Informal meeting in the woods in Oriente Province during the Cuban Revolution. An unidentified man is crouching in the foreground, Fidel Castro reclines on... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A flight nurse in an anoxic faint chamber, used to simulate high altitude flying with little oxygen, placing an oxygen mask over a male patient's face. He ... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure with testimonial letters from International Harvester customers. Features a drawing of a man looking over the shoulder of ... |
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