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| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Calbraith Perry Rodgers, with a cigar characteristically clenched in his jaw, was the first man to fly across the United States. He undertook this flight i... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Farm worker, Frank White, stops harvesting to pose with watermelon found among the cotton crop. The field, part of the O'Neill Ranch located in Helm, Calif... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A portrait of highschool student, Richard M. Nixon, from the Whittier High School Annual. |
| Date: | 04 1907 |
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| Description: | Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr., speaking to a crowd in a Los Angeles park. This photograph was used to illustrate the brochure "La Follette on the Firi... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Construction worker Buddis Stone at the site of the Mammoth Pool Dam along the San Joaquin River in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Stone bored holes for expl... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Richard M. Nixon, probably as a congressional candidate in 1946 when he first demonstrated his ability to use Communism as a way to electoral victory, in t... |
| Date: | 05 28 1925 |
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| Description: | A woman dressed in furs, patterned dress, and high heels is posing in front of an International Harvester motor coach, or bus. She seems to be pointing to ... |
| Date: | 08 16 1929 |
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| Description: | A woman, possibly actress Mary Duncan, sits behind the wheel of a McCormick-Deering tractor while a man stands beside her on the set of the Fox Film produc... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Actress Steffi Duna stands on the International T-20 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) used in the motion picture Escape by Night. |
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| Description: | Bloch at his work space in his home in Los Angeles. |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Captain George Henry Preble. Starting in 1861 Preble commanded the gunboat Katahdin, serving with Rear Admiral... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Photograph of Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis, stars of Columbia Pictures' "Hellcats of the Navy." |
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| Description: | A vignetted, quarter-length cabinet card portrait of Bernt J. Madsen a sergeant in Company B, 15th Wisconsin Infantry. The following information was obtain... |
| Date: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Gwen Jensen, a female flight nurse, poses for a photograph during flight training at Alameda Naval Air Strip. In an anoxic faint chamber, used to simulate ... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Flight nurse Gwen Jensen is posing with her father, during her last hours before leaving U.S. soil at Alameda Navy Landing Strip. She is sitting close to h... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of actor John Gilbert wearing a tuxedo. |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders vignetted studio portrait of Eldai Smith, an early settler in Racine. |
| Date: | 03 31 1971 |
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| Description: | Front cover and menu page of a reception at Perino's restaurant in honor of champion figure skater and screen star Sonja Henie, given by her widower, Niels... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Outdoor portrait of Sherwin and Emma Gillett standing between the columns at the Legion of Honor. Part of the marble arch is visible behind them. |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | William Otto Petersen and his wife Jane Jordan Browne Petersen pose seated and holding hands for a portrait around the time of their wedding. He is wearing... |
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