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Edna Ferber, Writing

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Description: Portrait of Edna Ferber seated and writing with a pen.
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Madge Kennedy at a Writing Desk

Date: 1917
Description: In this scene still for the 1917 Goldwyn production "Baby Mine," Zoie (played by Madge Kennedy) sits at a writing desk and gazes at a photograph of her hus...
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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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Writing on Chalkboard at Citizenship School

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Description: A woman writing on a chalkboard as part of the Citizenship School on Johns Island.
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First Graders

Date: 06 01 1989
Description: First graders writing and drawing while lying on the floor.
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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...
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Viola Dana

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Description: Publicity portrait of Viola Dana, autographed to Delight Evans who was a critic writing for Photoplay, Screenland, and the New York Morning Tele...
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Actress Lottie Briscoe at a desk

Date: 1913
Description: Lubin leading lady Lottie Briscoe sits at a writing desk in a publicity still. She wears a white lace overdress and a beaded Juliet cap.
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Scene still with Marguerite Clark in a bedroom.

Date: 1917
Description: Marguerite Clark in the role of Bab Archibald lies on her bed in a nightgown, perhaps writing in a diary. This is a scene still for the 1917 Famous Players...
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Flight Nurse with Patient in Anoxic Chamber

Date: 1945
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 ...
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Fidel Castro and Celia Sanchez, Oriente Province

Date: 1958
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...
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Fidel Castro and Celia Sanchez, Oriente Province

Date: 1958
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...
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Commandos L Meeting and Lecture

Date: 1963
Description: A meeting of the anti-Castro group Commandos L. A man is standing at the front of the room writing on a chalkboard and other members are sitting and listen...
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Robert Z. Leonard and Betty Harte in a silent film scene still

Date: 1908
Description: Robert Z. Leonard and Betty Harte stand on opposite sides of a post office writing desk in a scene still from a Selig Polyscope silent film, c. 1908.
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Samuel Goldwyn and Edna Ferber

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Description: Samuel Goldwyn and Edna Ferber pose together wearing fashionable attire.
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Anita Loos

Date: 1916
Description: Portrait of screenwriter Anita Loos with braided hair by Apeda Studio of New York.
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Cornelia Otis Skinner and Otis Skinner

Date: 1922
Description: Original caption: "Otis Skinner and Miss Cornelia Otis Skinner arriving home after a vacation in Spain."
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Joe McCarthy Takes Notes

Date: 04 22 1954
Description: Senator Joseph R. McCarthy writes in a note pad during the testimony of General Miles Reber, the first witness during the Army-McCarthy hearings, what the ...
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Marc Blitzstein Document

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Description: Page two of five typed pages containing "notes on the Work of the Composers Collective of NY" from the Marc Blitzstein papers.
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Electric Company Strike Negotiations

Date: 12 30 1966
Description: Three men are sitting together at a table. The man in the middle appears to be writing on a document, while the man on his right is talking to him. Caption...

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