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