"Hooch Hound," trained to detect liquor, Feb. 23., 1922

 

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[Hooch Hound, a dog trained to detect liquor (as suggested to Commissioner Haynes by a prohibition agent in Colorado), sniffs at flask in back pocket of man, seated, fishing on pier on the Potomac River]
Created / Published: [19]22 February 23.
Genre: Glass negatives
Notes:
- Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve.
- Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947.
- General information about the National Photo Company collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.npco
- This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings.
- Temp. note: Batch five.
Medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller
Source Collection: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: npcc 22716 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/npcc.22716
Library of Congress Control Number:2016846095

Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks signing contract establishing United Artists, 1919

 

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[D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin (seated) and Douglas Fairbanks at the signing of the contract establishing United Artists motion picture studio]
Created / Published: [1919, printed ca. 1957]
Headings:
- Chaplin, Charlie,--1889-1977
- Fairbanks, Douglas,--1883-1939
- Griffith, D. W.--(David Wark),--1875-1948
- Pickford, Mary,--1892-1979
- United Artists Corporation--People--1910-1920
Genre:
Group portraits--1910-1920
Portrait photographs--1910-1920
Gelatin silver prints--1950-1960
Notes:
- Title devised by Library staff.
- Also shows lawyers Albert Banzhaf (left) and Dennis F. O'Brien (right) standing in the background.
- Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
- Published in: "Famous People" chapter of the ebook Great Photographs from the Library of Congress, 2013.
Medium: 1 photographic print : gelatin silver.
Source Collection: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: cph 3c37195 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c37195
Library of Congress Control Number: 2007678308

"Sergeant Kendall, Christmas day 1909."

 

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Kendall, William Sergeant, 1869-1938, artist
Detroit Publishing Co., publisher
Created / Published:[ca. 1909]
Headings:
- Children & adults
Genre:
Dry plate negatives
Paintings--Reproductions
Notes:
- Date based on Detroit, Thistle Publications (1912).
- Photograph of a painting copyrighted and signed "Sergeant Kendall, Christmas day 1909."
- Detroit Publishing Co. no. M 799.
- Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Medium:1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
Source Collection: Detroit Publishing Company photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Repository:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: det 4a26338 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/det.4a26338
Library of Congress Control Number:2016817215