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| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Scene still of Breno Mello, as Orfeo holding a knife, and Marpessa Dawn, as Eurydice, in Marcel Camus's Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus, 1959). |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Colonel O'Donnel, a commanding officer for the 14th Infantry, posing with two other soldiers. The three men are outside and there is an American flag behin... |
| Date: | 06 1942 |
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| Description: | A member of the United Fruit Company's S.S. Santa Marta eating dinner while in the Caribbean. The man is wearing a button-up shirt and is sitting at... |
| Date: | 05 13 1968 |
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| Description: | Thurman Butler, 16, with the sculpture he made while practicing cutting and welding techniques in a foundry course at Milwaukee Technical college. He calle... |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | Black and white lithograph on paper. Title over image of minstrel company. Inserts of Lon and Billy Morris, left and right. Large image of man papering sto... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Movie still from the Allied Artists film "Shock Corridor," featuring James Best (playing Stuart), Peter Breck (playing Johnny Barrett), and Hari Rhodes (pl... |
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| Description: | Publicity still of actress Hattie McDaniel, in head scarf and blouse. |
| Date: | 09 25 1946 |
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| Description: | Publicity still of actor Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson. |
| Date: | 06 1978 |
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| Description: | Two boys are in the midst of a game of tug of war. They're dressed in overalls, jeans and t-shirts and are in full KISS makeup. KISS was a rock band which ... |
| Date: | 09 30 1978 |
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| Description: | Full-length group portrait of a bride and her mother and father walking towards the center aisle of the First Unitarian Society Meeting House as the ceremo... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A line of predominantly African-American people likely outside of the Leflore County Courthouse, probably at a voter registration drive. Caucasian law enfo... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A page from the pressbook for the movie "Black Like Me" depicting a one-sheet poster that could be ordered to publicize the film. The poster reads: "I chan... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Proof of a portrait of James Farmer, noted civil rights activist and co-founder of CORE (Congress of Racial Equality). Text written on the image states, "... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | A woman, identified as Tracy, friend of Rob McNamara and supporter of SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), wears headphones and eats. Behind h... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Three SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) workers in an image tentatively identified as taken at a barbeque hosted by Mr. Steptoc for SNCC sta... |
| Date: | 02 1970 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips is embracing Angie Brooks, former United Nations representative to Liberia. Ms. Brooks is wearing a fur coat, turban and earrings. Both women ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | The dissolute Herbert Lorrimer (played by Howard Davies) leers at Ruth Cleave (Myrtle Steadman) as they are served champagne by an African servant wearing ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | In a scene still for "Bawbs o' Blue Ridge," Barbara "Bawbs" Colby (played by Bessie Barriscale) entertains six African-American children among the trees of... |
| Date: | 10 04 1964 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Henry 'Hank' Aaron tipping his cap to the fans during the Braves' final game of the 1964 season. |
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