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BLEVINS, MISS ELINOR, MOVIE STAR, AVIATRIX, AUTO FIEND

BLEVINS, MISS ELINOR, MOVIE STAR, AVIATRIX, AUTO FIEND

A black and white photo of a woman standing next to a car. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Vitagraph "Movie" Battle - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Vitagraph "Movie" Battle - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tel Aviv. Moghrabi theatre. Movie picture-house.

Tel Aviv. Moghrabi theatre. Movie picture-house.

Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mahnomen City Drive-In Movie Theater, U.S. Highway 59 at Minnesota Highway 200, Mahnomen, Mahnomen County, MN

Mahnomen City Drive-In Movie Theater, U.S. Highway 59 at Minnesota Hig...

Survey number: HABS MN-121 Public domain photograph of movie theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a theatre, Movie theater. Romney, West Virginia

A black and white photo of a theatre, Movie theater. Romney, West Virg...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Children waiting to go into movie on Saturday afternoon, Littleton, New Hampshire

Children waiting to go into movie on Saturday afternoon, Littleton, Ne...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hopkins and Stars see club opening. Washington, D.C., Feb. 8. Washington's newest supper club opened last night with celebrities and stars in attendance. Here, Hopkins, Secretary of Commerce, movie star Errol Flynn and Mrs. John Hay Whitney, wealthy socialite, found their way to fun. Note the 'pop' bottle on the table, 2-8- 39

Hopkins and Stars see club opening. Washington, D.C., Feb. 8. Washingt...

A black and white photo of a group of people sitting at a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Endorse measure to prohibit block booking of movie films. Washington, D.C., April 4. Miss Katherine Van Etten Lexford, Executive Secretary of the Massachusettsachusetts Civic League, and Henry R. Atkinson of the National Motion Picture Research Council, appearing before the Senate Interstate Commerce Subcommittee today, endorsed the Neely Bill to prohibit 'block booking' and 'blind selling' of motion picture productions. Both are from Boston, Massachusetts. 4-4-39

Endorse measure to prohibit block booking of movie films. Washington, ...

A black and white photo of a woman standing at a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a movie theater, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a movie theater, West Virginia. Farm Securi...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Front of movie theatre, San Antonio, Texas

Front of movie theatre, San Antonio, Texas

Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a movie theater, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a movie theater, West Virginia. Farm Securi...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Movie theater, Elkins, West Virginia. There are two movies in town, both offer games of chance, win a dollar, three nights a week

Movie theater, Elkins, West Virginia. There are two movies in town, bo...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Movie theater on main street of Central City, California, Shasta County, which owes its existence to the construction work on Shasta Dam

Movie theater on main street of Central City, California, Shasta Count...

Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Office of War Information poster. Poster distributed by the OWI at public buildings, streetcars, theatres, movie houses, etc. The original comes in several sizes: forty inches by fifty-six inches, twenty-eight inches by forty inches, twenty-two inches by twenty-eight inches, and seven inches by eleven inches and is printed in multi-colors. The poster was drawn by artist David Stone Martin. Copies may be obtained from Division of Public Inquiries, Office of War Information, 1400 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C.

Office of War Information poster. Poster distributed by the OWI at pub...

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

At a movie house on Saturday afternoon in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania

At a movie house on Saturday afternoon in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania

Picryl description: Public domain image of a grocery or convenience store, food, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. International student assembly. Mrs. Roosevelt greeting Wang Yung, a Chinese movie actress

Washington, D.C. International student assembly. Mrs. Roosevelt greeti...

Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a poster. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a poster. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negat...

Public domain photograph of sport activity, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Baltimore, Maryland. Thursday night shoppers in a line outside a movie theatre

Baltimore, Maryland. Thursday night shoppers in a line outside a movie...

Picryl description: Public domain image of bustling city downtown streets, commercial buildings, 20th-century, the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Art Deco Palace Theater, a onetime movie theater in downtown Marfa, Texas

The Art Deco Palace Theater, a onetime movie theater in downtown Marfa...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It was the Marfa Opera House before its cinematic incarnation, but closed in the 1970s. As of this photograph in 2014, a local illust... More

The African Queen, the African steamer featured in the movie of the same name, on display in Key Largo, Florida

The African Queen, the African steamer featured in the movie of the sa...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Old Paria (Pahrea) movie set, Utah

Old Paria (Pahrea) movie set, Utah

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

The Regent Showcase theater, an art deco former movie house on La Brea Avenue in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California

The Regent Showcase theater, an art deco former movie house on La Brea...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The community, once a dusty mining, railroad, and mill town, was known as Amargosa, after the desert valley that surrounds it. A recreation hall at the no... More

The old Senator movie theater became a live-music venue in this lively college (California State University at Chico) city in northern California

The old Senator movie theater became a live-music venue in this lively...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Likeness of the animated movie character "Shrek" at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California

Likeness of the animated movie character "Shrek" at Madame Tussaud's W...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Old movie theater in Lompoc, California

Old movie theater in Lompoc, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

"Professor Thaddeus Schmidlap" (historical intrepreter Ross Nelson), the resident snake-oil salesman at the Enchanted Springs Ranch and Old West theme park, special-events venue, and frequent movie and television commercial set in Boerne, Texas, northwest of San Antonio

"Professor Thaddeus Schmidlap" (historical intrepreter Ross Nelson), t...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Scene from the Enchanted Springs Ranch, an Old West theme park, special-events venue, and frequent movie and television commercial set in Boerne, Texas, northwest of San Antonio

Scene from the Enchanted Springs Ranch, an Old West theme park, specia...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

"Professor Thaddeus Schmidlap" (historical intrepreter Ross Nelson), the resident snake-oil salesman at the Enchanted Springs Ranch and Old West theme park, special-events venue, and frequent movie and television commercial set in Boerne, Texas, northwest of San Antonio

"Professor Thaddeus Schmidlap" (historical intrepreter Ross Nelson), t...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

"Pistol Packin' Paula" Saletnik is the resident gun-twirler, trick roper, bull-whipper & western dancer at the Enchanted Springs Ranch, an Old West theme park, special-events venue, and frequent movie and television commercial set in Boerne, Texas, northwest of San Antonio

"Pistol Packin' Paula" Saletnik is the resident gun-twirler, trick rop...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

"Pistol Packin' Paula" Saletnik is the resident gun-twirler, trick roper, bull-whipper & western dancer at the Enchanted Springs Ranch, an Old West theme park, special-events venue, and frequent movie and television commercial set in Boerne, Texas, northwest of San Antonio

"Pistol Packin' Paula" Saletnik is the resident gun-twirler, trick rop...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Part of a much-used, now-abandoned "western" movie set along the Rio Grande River in Big Bend Ranch State Park in lower Brewster County, Texas

Part of a much-used, now-abandoned "western" movie set along the Rio G...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Often referred to as the "Contrabando" set, it has been used for several productions, including the movie of that name, "The Streets ... More

Part of a much-used, now-abandoned "western" movie set along the Rio Grande River in Big Bend Ranch State Park in lower Brewster County, Texas

Part of a much-used, now-abandoned "western" movie set along the Rio G...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Often referred to as the "Contrabando" set, it has been used for several productions, including the movie of that name, "The Streets ... More

Photographer Carol M. Highsmith gets her moment before the camera, alongside a new, long-horned friend, at the Enchanted Springs Ranch, an Old West theme park, special-events venue, and frequent movie and television commercial set in Boerne, Texas, northwest of San Antonio

Photographer Carol M. Highsmith gets her moment before the camera, alo...

Public domain image of cattle, livestock, farm animals, agriculture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Colorful stagecoach at the Superstition Mountain Museum in Apache Junction, Arizona, best known for its wedding chapel: the Elvis Presley Memorial Chapel, originally a movie prop constructed for the 1969 western "Charro!, "which was the only Presley movie Elvis in which the crooner and teenage heartthrob did not sing

Colorful stagecoach at the Superstition Mountain Museum in Apache Junc...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

"Hearts of the world" A love story of the great war.

"Hearts of the world" A love story of the great war.

Motion picture poster showing soldier holding whip over woman laying across basket of vegetables in a field, a cart with basket of vegetables in the background. Battle scenes taken on the battle fields of Franc... More

Alexander the man who knows - Public domain  print

Alexander the man who knows - Public domain print

At head of title: Pantages, Minneapolis; week com. Sun. Mar. 30. Transferred from; LC Rare Book and Special Collections Division; 1956. Forms part of: Magic poster collection (Library of Congress) Forms part of... More

OVERMAN, LEE SLATER. SENATOR FROM NORTH CAROLINA, 1903-1933. BEFORE MOVIE CAMERA

OVERMAN, LEE SLATER. SENATOR FROM NORTH CAROLINA, 1903-1933. BEFORE MO...

A man standing next to a camera on a tripod. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Her victory eternal The jealousy of fate.

Her victory eternal The jealousy of fate.

Motion picture poster for "Her Victory Eternal" shows a woman holding a bouquet surrounded by two men with another woman in the background.

Sen. Robert LaFollette, Pres. nominee of third party ticket shoots his runningmate (with a movie camera) Sen. Burton K. Wheeler

Sen. Robert LaFollette, Pres. nominee of third party ticket shoots his...

A black and white photo of two men standing next to a camera. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Eric and Edith Matson with movie camera, standing on platform suspended from building, with other people, Jerusalem?]

[Eric and Edith Matson with movie camera, standing on platform suspend...

Public domain photograph of Jerusalem, Israel, Palestine, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gertrude Olmsted, movie star - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Gertrude Olmsted, movie star - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Charges Hollywood rampant with Communism. Washington, D.C., Aug. 18. Hollywood, home of the movie industry, is a hotbed of communism Edward F. Sullivan, ace investigator of the Special House Committee investigating Un-American activities, charged today in his report to the committee. Sullivan told of a meeting in Los Angeles attended by movie actors at which a fund was raised to aid the loyalists in Spain, 8/18/38

Charges Hollywood rampant with Communism. Washington, D.C., Aug. 18. H...

A black and white photo of a man in a suit and tie. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a person walking down a street, Washington DC. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a person walking down a street, Washington ...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sec. of Commerce Daniel Roper, with movie strip of the San Francisco Exposition

Sec. of Commerce Daniel Roper, with movie strip of the San Francisco E...

A black and white photo of a man holding a pair of scissors. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mexican boys looking at movie poster, San Antonio, Texas

Mexican boys looking at movie poster, San Antonio, Texas

Public domain photograph of advertising campaign, billboard, street signs, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Entrance to a movie house, Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee

Entrance to a movie house, Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee

Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Abandoned stores and movie house. Zeigler, Illinois

Abandoned stores and movie house. Zeigler, Illinois

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Migrant fruit workers come to town on Saturday night for a free open air movie sponsored by the local merchants who remain open for business. Millburg, Michigan

Migrant fruit workers come to town on Saturday night for a free open a...

Public domain photograph of a crowd, event, meeting, demonstration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Children at a movie house on Saturday afternoon in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania

Children at a movie house on Saturday afternoon in Beaver Falls, Penns...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Crowd coming out of Regal movie theater. Southside of Chicago, Illinois

Crowd coming out of Regal movie theater. Southside of Chicago, Illinoi...

Public domain image of a historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Send your typewriters to war. At Universal City, California, Maria Montez, glamorous Latin-American movie star, and Gloria Jean, typical of young America in Hollywood, helped collect over one hundred typewriters for the Army, Navy, and Marines. Only machines manufactured since January 1, 1935 were commandeered; no portables were wanted. A telephonic dictation room is being set up whereby busy executives can pick up the telephone, dictate their mail to a centrally located room which insures prompt typing of their letters, and at the same time more correspondence can be handled with lesser number of typewriters

Send your typewriters to war. At Universal City, California, Maria Mon...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Middle River, a small crossroads in the vicinity of Baltimore, Maryland. FSA (Farm Security Administration) housing project (later, National Housing Agency) for Glenn L. Martin aircraft plant workers. The movie theater

Middle River, a small crossroads in the vicinity of Baltimore, Marylan...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Washington, D.C. An American rescue society worker soliciting funds from a crowd of people waiting to get into a movie

Washington, D.C. An American rescue society worker soliciting funds fr...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Regent Showcase theater, an art deco former movie house on La Brea Avenue in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California

The Regent Showcase theater, an art deco former movie house on La Brea...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The community, once a dusty mining, railroad, and mill town, was known as Amargosa, after the desert valley that surrounds it. A recreation hall at the no... More

Sheffield is home to the Ritz Theater, a 1920's silent movie house that has been restored to its original grandeur

Sheffield is home to the Ritz Theater, a 1920's silent movie house tha...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Street scene with sign for Granada movie theater in downtown Alpine, Texas

Street scene with sign for Granada movie theater in downtown Alpine, T...

Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Part of a much-used, now-abandoned "western" movie set along the Rio Grande River in Big Bend Ranch State Park in lower Brewster County, Texas

Part of a much-used, now-abandoned "western" movie set along the Rio G...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Often referred to as the "Contrabando" set, it has been used for several productions, including the movie of that name, "The Streets ... More

Part of a much-used, now-abandoned "western" movie set along the Rio Grande River in Big Bend Ranch State Park in lower Brewster County, Texas

Part of a much-used, now-abandoned "western" movie set along the Rio G...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Often referred to as the "Contrabando" set, it has been used for several productions, including the movie of that name, "The Streets ... More

Steve Schmidt, the sheriff in town at the Enchanted Springs Ranch and Old West theme park, special-events venue, and frequent movie and television commercial set in Boerne, Texas, northwest of San Antonio, checks on one of the ranch's buffaloes. Schmidt, a rancher and retired B52 pilot, owns the operation

Steve Schmidt, the sheriff in town at the Enchanted Springs Ranch and ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

"Pistol Packin' Paula" Saletnik is the resident gun-twirler, trick roper, bull-whipper & western dancer at the Enchanted Springs Ranch, an Old West theme park, special-events venue, and frequent movie and television commercial set in Boerne, Texas, northwest of San Antonio

"Pistol Packin' Paula" Saletnik is the resident gun-twirler, trick rop...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

"Professor Thaddeus Schmidlap" (historical intrepreter Ross Nelson), the resident snake-oil salesman at the Enchanted Springs Ranch and Old West theme park, special-events venue, and frequent movie and television commercial set in Boerne, Texas, northwest of San Antonio

"Professor Thaddeus Schmidlap" (historical intrepreter Ross Nelson), t...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

A docile deer escapes the sun under a stagecoach at the Enchanted Springs Ranch, an Old West theme park, special- events venue, and frequent movie and television commercial set in Boerne, Texas, northwest of San Antonio

A docile deer escapes the sun under a stagecoach at the Enchanted Spri...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Colorful stagecoach at the Superstition Mountain Museum in Apache Junction, Arizona, best known for its wedding chapel: the Elvis Presley Memorial Chapel, originally a movie prop constructed for the 1969 western "Charro!, "which was the only Presley movie Elvis in which the crooner and teenage heartthrob did not sing

Colorful stagecoach at the Superstition Mountain Museum in Apache Junc...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

The youngest actor A movie star at eight years of age is the record of this little Arabian girl of Toggourt, Algeria. She was one of the actors in the American Red Cross film, "The children of the Sahara," which has just been completed in this desert country for the benefit of American school-children / / Photo by Capt. Merl LaVoy (Seattle).

The youngest actor A movie star at eight years of age is the record of...

Photograph shows girl in traditional dress. No. RC-924. Forms part of: American National Red Cross photograph collection.

Negro going in colored entrance of movie house on Saturday afternoon, Belzoni, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Negro going in colored entrance of movie house on Saturday afternoon, ...

Photograph shows side of Crescent Theatre in Belzoni, Mississippi. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

[Herbert Brenon & Alla Nazimova examining a movie camera, Aug. 9, 1916 - half-length, standing, right profile]

[Herbert Brenon & Alla Nazimova examining a movie camera, Aug. 9, 1916...

Photo copyrighted by Bain News Service, N.Y.C. Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracin... More

Movie theatre, Washington, D.C.

Movie theatre, Washington, D.C.

Public domain photograph - city, downtown, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Children in front of movie theatre, Alpine, Texas

Children in front of movie theatre, Alpine, Texas

Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Movie advertisements, Herrin, Illinois

Movie advertisements, Herrin, Illinois

Public domain photograph of street advertisement signs, downtown commercial district, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

This movie tent opened with great expectations but closed down three days later for lack of attendance. At Kymulga, near Childersburg, Alabama. Kymulga is the closest village to the powder plant

This movie tent opened with great expectations but closed down three d...

Public domain photograph of Alabama in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Greenbelt, Maryland. Federal housing project. View across plaza of the shopping center showing the moving picture house. All stores including the movie house are run on a cooperative basis

Greenbelt, Maryland. Federal housing project. View across plaza of the...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Middle River, a small crossroads in the vicinity of Baltimore, Maryland. FSA (Farm Security Administration) housing project (later National Housing Agency) for Glenn L. Martin aircraft plant workers. The movie theater

Middle River, a small crossroads in the vicinity of Baltimore, Marylan...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Teenage girls add to grafitti on bottom of Elvis movie poster] / World Telegram & Sun photo by Phil Stanziola.

[Teenage girls add to grafitti on bottom of Elvis movie poster] / Worl...

NYWT&S staff photo. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection.

Likeness of movie star Marilyn Monroe at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California

Likeness of movie star Marilyn Monroe at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum i...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

"Pistol-Packin' Paula" Saletnik shows off her Annie Oakley-style gun-twirling and -tossing skills at the Old West town, audience-participation theme park, working cattle ranch, and frequent movie, TV-commercial, and country-music video set at Enchanted Springs Ranch outside the town of Boerne, west of San Antonio in the Texas Hill Country. The locale contains more than 40 movie facades or original buildings moved from remote locations in the surrounding hills

"Pistol-Packin' Paula" Saletnik shows off her Annie Oakley-style gun-t...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Texas longhorn steers at the Enchanted Springs Ranch, an Old West theme park, special-events venue, and frequent movie and television commercial set in Boerne, Texas, northwest of San Antonio

Texas longhorn steers at the Enchanted Springs Ranch, an Old West them...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

An abandoned movie theater in Sierra Blanca, made a virtual ghost town when the interstate highway bypassed it in Hudspeth County, Texas

An abandoned movie theater in Sierra Blanca, made a virtual ghost town...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

[U.S. Army tent camp in Mexico, 1914: row of tents; movie camera at far right]

[U.S. Army tent camp in Mexico, 1914: row of tents; movie camera at fa...

J189848 U.S. Copyright Office Photoprint copyrighted by Mutual Film Corporation. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Motion pictures; Army, U.S.; Mexico History 1... More

Mrs. Wallace Reid, widow of the former movie star called on President Coolidge today at the White House with her son, Wallace Reid, Jr.

Mrs. Wallace Reid, widow of the former movie star called on President ...

A black and white photo of a woman and a child. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Movie advertisement on side of building. Welch, West Virginia

Movie advertisement on side of building. Welch, West Virginia

Public domain photograph of West Virginia in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

MRS. ROOSEVELT GREETS SCREEN STAR. WASHINGTON, D.C. JANUARY 29. MAKING HER ROUNDS OF THE NUMEROUS PRESIDENT'S BIRTHDAY BALLS TONIGHT, MRS. ROOSEVELT GREETS JANET GAYNOR, PETITE MOVIE STAR WHO CAME FROM HOLLYWOOD TO ENTERTAIN THE MERRYMAKERS CELEBRATE THE PRESIDENT'S 56TH BIRTHDAY AT THE WARDMAN PARK HOTEL

MRS. ROOSEVELT GREETS SCREEN STAR. WASHINGTON, D.C. JANUARY 29. MAKING...

A black and white photo of two women shaking hands. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Children waiting to go into movie on Saturday afternoon. Littleton, New Hampshire

Children waiting to go into movie on Saturday afternoon. Littleton, Ne...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of children, kids, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Waiting for Department of Agriculture movie to start. Courtroom, San Augustine, Texas

Waiting for Department of Agriculture movie to start. Courtroom, San A...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The week's movie program, San Augustine, Texas

The week's movie program, San Augustine, Texas

Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Traveling carnival at Old Trap, North Carolina. This troupe follows the migrants around and stops where there is a large settlement of them. A show generally consists of a band concert and movie and vaudeville

Traveling carnival at Old Trap, North Carolina. This troupe follows th...

Public domain photograph of music band, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Movie theater. Southside, Chicago, Illinois

Movie theater. Southside, Chicago, Illinois

Photo shows Regal Theater and Savoy Ballroom. Public domain photograph of movie theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a theater at night. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a theater at night. Great Depression FFSA /...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a theater at night. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a theater at night. Great Depression FFSA /...

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Six stages of fat salvage. Save a little fat from the roasting pan, as movie star Janet Blair is doing. When edible fats should give all possible nutrition before salvage, just a little can be taken from the pan before gravy is made. To meet war needs each housewife must save one tablespoonful of waste kitchen fat each day

Six stages of fat salvage. Save a little fat from the roasting pan, as...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Send your typewriters to war. At Universal City, California, Maria Montez, glamorous Latin-American movie star, and Gloria Jean, typical of young America in Hollywood, helped collect over one hundred typewriters for the Army, Navy, and Marines. Only machines manufactured since January 1, 1935 were commandeered; no portables were wanted. A telephonic dictation room is being set up whereby busy executives can pick up the telephone, dictate their mail to a centrally located room which insures prompt typing of their letters, and at the same time more correspondence can be handled with lesser number of typewriters

Send your typewriters to war. At Universal City, California, Maria Mon...

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Middle River, Maryland. A small crossroads in the vicinity of Baltimore, Maryland. FSA (Farm Security Administration) housing project (later, National Housing Agency) for Glenn L. Martin aircraft plant workers. The movie theater with cars parked in parking lot

Middle River, Maryland. A small crossroads in the vicinity of Baltimor...

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Panorama view of an adult peep show movie house on 14th Street before the place closed. Washington, D.C.

Panorama view of an adult peep show movie house on 14th Street before ...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken during the 1980s. Title, date, subject... More

Grave of movie actor and war hero Audie Murphy at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia

Grave of movie actor and war hero Audie Murphy at Arlington National C...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Detail in auditorium at the Perot Theatre, a landmark since 1924, when it opened as the Saenger Amusement Company's "Gateway to the West" movie theater in Texarkana, Texas

Detail in auditorium at the Perot Theatre, a landmark since 1924, when...

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Detail in auditorium at the Perot Theatre, a landmark since 1924, when it opened as the Saenger Amusement Company's "Gateway to the West" movie theater in Texarkana, Texas

Detail in auditorium at the Perot Theatre, a landmark since 1924, when...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Fully restored by the City of Texarkana, Texas in 1979-80. Native son H. Ross Perot, through the Perot Foundation, contributed much o... More

Outside detail of the Perot Theatre, a landmark since 1924, when it opened as the Saenger Amusement Company's "Gateway to the West" movie theater in Texarkana, Texas

Outside detail of the Perot Theatre, a landmark since 1924, when it op...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Fully restored by the City of Texarkana, Texas in 1979-80. Native son H. Ross Perot, through the Perot Foundation, contributed much o... More

The Fremont Theater is a historic movie theater in San Luis Obispo, California

The Fremont Theater is a historic movie theater in San Luis Obispo, Ca...

The theater, opened in 1942, is among the last Streamline Moderne theaters built by architect S. Charles Lee. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection ... More

Likenesses of Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart, in character in their roles in the movie "The African Queen," at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California

Likenesses of Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart, in character in t...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Old-time Hollywood movie camera inside the Hollywood/Vine Metro subway station in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California

Old-time Hollywood movie camera inside the Hollywood/Vine Metro subway...

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Presenters Thornton Young, left, and Wes Hughes "shoot" it out at the Old West town, audience-participation theme park, working cattle ranch, and frequent movie, TV-commercial, and country-music video venue at Enchanted Springs Ranch outside the town of Boerne, west of San Antonio in the Texas Hill Country. The locale contains more than 40 movie facades or original buildings moved from remote locations in the surrounding hills

Presenters Thornton Young, left, and Wes Hughes "shoot" it out at the ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

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