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Beechnut Gum Girls

Date: 1935
Description: Beechnut Gum girls, posed in front of an automobile, promoting the product for a national advertising campaign.
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Rhythm Girls

Date: 06 25 1932
Description: Fanchon and Mario "Rhythm Girls" posing in front of an A&W Root Beer. They are standing in a line and holding mugs of root beer.
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Rosie the Riveter

Date: 09 1943
Description: A real-life Rosie the Riveter instructs journalists on the Aviation Writers' Tour at the Goodyear Aircraft Factory. This plant manufactured Martin Marauder...
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Lindbergh before Flight

Date: 1927
Description: Publicist Harry Bruno; B.F. Mahoney, designer of "The Spirit of St. Louis"; an Earl Carroll chorus girl; Charles Lindbergh; and Bruno's partner, Richard Bl...
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World's Fair Beauties

Date: 08 10 1934
Description: Three "most beautiful employees" of the Chicago World's Fair on a publicity tour: Patricia Marquan, Kay Griffith and Dorothy Le Fold.
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"Lux" Girls

Date: 07 24 1933
Description: Group portrait of women posing for a Lux soap publicity drive on the steps in front of the Clarridge Apartments.
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WAVES Soldier Saluting

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Description: WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) soldier saluting superimposed in front of an image of the American Flag and a gun crew on a ship.
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Four-Wheel Drive Scout Convertible

Date: 1961
Description: A man and a woman are sitting in a four-wheel drive, open-top International Harvester Scout. The text on the side of the truck reads: "Kurt King." The att...
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Phi Beta's "A Combine of Comedy"

Date: 02 07 1949
Description: Committee members creating the guest program for "A Combine of Comedy" produced by Phi Beta. Left to right: Mrs. Gordon (Eleanor) Rowley, 904 Oakland Avenu...
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Madison Heart Fund Drive

Date: 01 24 1950
Description: Mrs. Lindley V. (Virginia) Sprague and Mrs. George (Dorothy) Rentschler with the publicity materials they will use at information desks for the Madison Hea...
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Academy Award-Winning Butcher

Date: 03 11 1956
Description: Actor Ernest Borgnine, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as a butcher in "Marty", reenacted his role for a publicity photograph at a groc...
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Valeska Suratt

Date: 1906
Description: An early full-length publicity portrait of Valeska Suratt in an interesting pose: arms straight out, palms down, as if she were warming by a fire. She wear...
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Valeska Surrat

Date: 1916
Description: Full-length publicity photograph of Valeska Surrat. Valeska Surrat, standing beside a mirror, wears a crinoline dress decorated with artificial grapes. ...
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Sidell Sisters

Date: 1928
Description: Billie is dressed as a man, and Pierre is lying on a table with Billie leaning over her.
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National Business Women's Week

Date: 10 06 1953
Description: Nellie A. Brown, night supervisor of nurses, represents a modern nurse as she is pushing a patient in a wheelchair. Posing as the patient is Geneva F. McKa...
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Lenore Ulric and Frank Colvin in "Her Own People" Scene Still

Date: 1916
Description: Leonore Ulric as the American Indian girl Alona, "the half-breed daughter of a wealthy white man" (Moving Picture World 8/19/1916, p. 1268). She is in the ...
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Huntley Gordon and Irene Castle in "The Invisible Bond"

Date: 1919
Description: Huntly Gordon (in character as Harleth Crossey) and Irene Castle (as Marcia Crossey) pose outdoors in a full-length publicity photograph for "The Invisible...
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Agnes Ayres and Thomas Meighan in "Cappy Ricks"

Date: 1921
Description: Florrie Ricks (played by Agnes Ayres), the daughter of a shipowner, attends to Matt Peasley (Thomas Meighan), a seaman who lies unconscious in her lap in a...
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Ogden Crane, Owen Moore, and Mary Pickford in "Caprice"

Date: 1913
Description: Pausing by the door of his mountain cabin, Jim Baxter (played by Ogden Crane) notices that his daughter Mercy (Mary Pickford) and the wealthy visitor from ...
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Florence Lawrence in "The Pawns of Destiny"

Date: 1914
Description: Florence Lawrence watches as a young man with bandaged hands and face is transferred by two orderlies from a gurney onto a hospital bed. Also visible in th...

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