
William K.L. Dickson
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William Kennedy Laurie Dickson was a Scottish inventor and the Edison Manufacturing Company's official photographer. In 1889, he was assigned to turn the concept of a the proposed motion picture device, named the Kinetoscope, into a reality. The first working prototype was unveiled in May 1891 and the design of system was essentially finalised by the fall of 1892. The completed version of the Kinetoscope was officially unveiled at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences on 9 May 1893.
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Carmencita (1894)
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Blacksmithing Scene (1893)
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Horse Shoeing (1893)
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Men Boxing (1891)
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Bucking Broncho (1894)
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Dickson Greeting (1891)
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Buffalo Bill (1894)
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Annie Oakley (1894)
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Butterfly Dances (2007)
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Crissie Sheridan (1897)
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Buffalo Dance (1894)
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Fencing (1892)
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Duncan Smoking (1891)
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Hadj Cheriff (1894)
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Band Drill (1894)
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Rat Killing (1894)
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Caicedo (with Pole) (1894)
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Maidenhead Junction (1898)
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King John (1899)
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Bath Scene (1897)
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Les Parisiennes (1897)
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Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing) (1894)
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The Queen and the Queen Mother on the Palace Balcony Responding to the Call of the Populace (Coronation of Wilhelmina) (1898)
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Highland Dance (1894)
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Ten Pickaninnies (1908)
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The Royal Procession from the Church after the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina) (1898)
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Review of the Royal Netherland Guards in the Costumes of the Middle Ages (Coronation of Wilhelmina Guard of Honor) (1898)
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Coronation of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (No. 1) (1898)
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Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894)
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Newark Athlete (1891)
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Sandow (1896)
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The Royal Procession to the Church before the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina) (1898)
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Away Aloft (1899)
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Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (1894)
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Man Overboard! (1899)
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Danse serpentine (Annabelle) (1895)
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Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph (1894)
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Dancing Darkies (1896)
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Dance (1894)
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Arrival of the Queen at the Palace, Amsterdam, Sept 6th (Coronation of Wilhelmina) (1898)
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Rip Meeting the Dwarf (1896)
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Wrestling (1892)
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Man on Parallel Bars (1892)
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Trained Bears (1894)
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Leonard-Cushing Fight (1894)
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Athlete with Wand (1894)
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Glenroy Bros., No. 2 (1894)
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Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep (1896)
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The Barber Shop (1894)
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Ruth Dennis (1894)
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The Boxing Cats (1894)
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Pope Leo XIII in His Carriage (1898)
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Dutch Fishing Boats (1898)
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Tambourine Dance by Annabelle (1896)
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Scheveningen, Dutch Fishing Boats (1898)
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Pope Leo XIII Carried through the Vatican Loggia on His Way to the Sistine Chapel (1898)
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Serpentine Dance by Annabelle (1896)
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A Hand Shake (1892)
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Amann, the Great Impersonator (1899)
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Cock Fight, No. 2 (1894)
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Annabelle Butterfly Dance (1894)
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Pope Leo XIII and Count Pecci, No. 1 (1898)
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Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow (1896)
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Four Warships in Rough Seas (1900)
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Boxing Match (1894)
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Firing the Maxim Gun (1897)
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Pope Leo XIII Being Seated Bestowing Blessing (1898)
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Monkeyshines, No. 2 (1890)
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A Blast at the Solvay Quarries (1898)
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Pope Leo XIII Resting on His Way to His Summer Villa (1898)
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Sioux Ghost Dance (1894)
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Exit of Rip and the Dwarf (1896)
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French Military School Exercise (1897)
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Billy Edwards and the Unknown (1895)
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Fatima (1897)
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Fred Ott Holding a Bird (1894)
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His Holiness Pope Leo XIII (1898)
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Imperial Japanese Dance (1894)
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Awakening of Rip (1896)
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Pope Leo XIII Leaving Carriage and Being Ushered Into Garden, No. 104 (1898)
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Duel to the Death (1898)
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Rip's Toast to Hudson (1896)
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The Bridge of Sighs, Venice (1898)
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Home Life of a Hungarian Family (1897)
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American Falls from Goat Island (1896)
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Place de la Concorde (1897)
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Duncan and Another, Blacksmith Shop (1891)
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Lasso Thrower (1894)
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Flower Parade in Haarlem (1899)
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Capuchin Monks in Vatican City (1898)
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Panoramic View of Conway on the L. & N.W. Railway (1898)
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Monkeyshines, No. 3 (1890)
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Pope Leo XIII Walking at Twilight, No. 1 (1898)
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Newark athlete. [No. 2] (1891)
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Hiram Maxim and His Quick-firing Gun (1897)
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Annabelle Sun Dance (1894)
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The Boulevard of Scheveningen (1898)
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From Monte Carlo to Monaco (1899)
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A Bar Room Scene (1894)
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Annabelle in Flag Dance (1896)
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Rats and Terrier No. 2 (1894)
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View on Boulevard, New York City (1896)
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Irish Mail – L.& N.W. Railway – Taking up Water at Full Speed (1898)
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Sandow: The Strong Man (1894)
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James Grundy, Buck and Wing (1895)
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Funeral Procession of the Misericordia (1898)
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Rip's Toast (1896)
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Chinese Laundry Scene (1894)
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Indian War Council (1894)
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From War to Peace: First Departure of S.S. 'St. Louis' from Southampton (1898)
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He and She (1898)
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Launch of the 'Oceanic' (1899)
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Nabbed by the Nipper (1902)
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Rudge-Whitworth – Britain’s Best Bicycle (1902)
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Wrestling Match (1894)
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Fire Rescue Scene (1894)
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In a German Bath (1899)
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Venice, Feeding the Pigeons in St. Mark's Square (1898)
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Battleship Odin Firing All Her Guns (1900)
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Annabelle Dances and Dances (1997)
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The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight (1894)
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Rats and Terrier No. 3 (1894)
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Panorama of Grand Harbour, Malta, Showing Battleships, Etc. (1901)
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Monkeyshines, No. 1 (1890)
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An Obstinate Cork (1902)
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Panorama of Ealing from a Moving Tram (1901)
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Catching the Ferry in Amsterdam (1899)
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Mills from the Zaanstreek (1898)
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Panoramic View of Windsor Castle (1899)
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Changing Guard (Berlin) (1897)
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Has He Hit Me? (1897)
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Robetta and Doretto, No. 1 (1895)
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Rip Passing Over the Mountain (1896)
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A West Indian Woman Bathing a Baby (1895)
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Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market at Venice (1898)
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Charge of the French Cuirassiers – Paris (1897)
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Charge of the Carabineers, Aldershot (1898)
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Fun on a Sand Hill (1899)
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A Camp of Zingaree Gypsies (1897)
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New Blacksmith Shop (1895)
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Tram Journey through Southampton (1900)
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Tapping a Blast Furnace (1899)
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American Falls from Luna Island (1896)
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Corpus Christi Procession, Orvieto (1898)
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The Tarantella, an Italian Dance (1898)
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The Grand Canal, Venice (1898)
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Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii (1898)
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Luis Martinetti, Contortionist (1894)
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The Pickaninny Dance from the “Passing Show” (1894)
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The Vatican Military Guard, Consisting of a Detachment of Noble Guards, Commanded by Count Pecci, Followed by a Palatine Guard of Honour, Swiss Guard, Gendarmes and Fire Brigade (1898)
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English Nell (1900)
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Venice, harbour scene with gondolas (1898)
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Duncan or Devonald with Muslin Cloud (1891)
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Sound Money Parade (1896)
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Water Polo - Worthing Swimming Club (1898)
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Monkey and Another, Boxing (1891)
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Rip Van Winkle (1896)
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Dutch Fishing Fleet (1900)
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Warships at Sunset (1900)
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The Cock Fight (1894)
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The Landing of Savage South Africa at Southampton (1899)
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Upside Down Boxers (1899)
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Mexican Knife Duel (1894)
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In the Friedrichstrasse (1899)
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London Fire Brigade, Alarm (1899)
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Mr. Hurry-up (1907)
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Brook Trout Fishing (1900)
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Chinese Opium Den (1894)
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Military Exercise - Aldershot (1898)
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Rats and Weasel (1894)
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Mlle. Capitaine (1894)
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Hard Wash (1896)
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A Watermelon Feast (1896)
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