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