Billy Bitzer
- Known for
- Camera
- Born
- April 21, 1872
- Died
- April 29, 1944 (aged 72)
- Birthplace
- Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA
Biography
Gottfried Wilhelm "Billy" Bitzer (April 21, 1872 – April 29, 1944) was a pioneering American cinematographer notable for his close association with D. W. Griffith. In 2003, a survey conducted by the International Cinematographers Guild named him one of the ten most influential cinematographers in history. Bitzer, it is said, "developed camera techniques that set the standard for all future motion pictures." Description above from the Wikipedia article Billy Bitzer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Hotel Variety
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The Battle of the Sexes
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The Midnight Girl
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America
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The White Rose
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Sure-Fire Flint
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Orphans of the Storm
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The Love Flower
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The Idol Dancer
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Way Down East
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Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
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The Fall of Babylon
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The Mother and the Law
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The Girl Who Stayed at Home
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True Heart Susie
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The Greatest Question
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A Romance of Happy Valley
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Scarlet Days
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The Greatest Thing in Life
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The Great Love
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Hearts of the World
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
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The Birth of a Nation
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The Avenging Conscience
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The Escape
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Home, Sweet Home
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Judith of Bethulia
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Near To Earth
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The Mothering Heart
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Olaf—An Atom
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The Lady and the Mouse
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The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
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An Indian's Loyalty
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Two Men of the Desert
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Broken Ways
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The Little Tease
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The Wanderer
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The Unwelcome Guest
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Friends
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The New York Hat
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The Burglar’s Dilemma
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The Lesser Evil
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The Massacre
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A Temporary Truce
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The School Teacher and the Waif
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A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
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The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
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A Lodging for the Night
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The Girl and Her Trust
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The Painted Lady
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Iola's Promise
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An Unseen Enemy
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One Is Business, the Other Crime
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The Sunbeam
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The Mender of Nets
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The Musketeers of Pig Alley
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So Near, Yet So Far
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Lena and the Geese
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A Beast at Bay
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My Baby
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The Root of Evil
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A String of Pearls
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When a Man Loves
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The Miser's Heart
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His Trust
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Swords and Hearts
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The Battle
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Italian Blood
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The Long Road
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Fisher Folks
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The Lonedale Operator
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His Trust Fulfilled
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The Making of a Man
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The Primal Call
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The Rose of Kentucky
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Teaching Dad to Like Her
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Enoch Arden: Part I
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Enoch Arden: Part II
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Enoch Arden
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The Last Drop of Water
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The Voice of the Child
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The Trail of Books
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The Usurer
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The Fugitive
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In the Border States
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What the Daisy Said
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Waiter No. 5
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The Iconoclast
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Sunshine Sue
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The Unchanging Sea
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Rose o' Salem Town
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A Flash of Light
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The Lesson
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The Honor of His Family
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Ramona
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The House with Closed Shutters
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Wilful Peggy
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They Would Elope
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The Suicide Club
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What Drink Did
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A Drunkard's Reformation
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The Broken Locket
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The Little Darling
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1776, or The Hessian Renegades
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The Mountaineer's Honor
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Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
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The Day After
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To Save Her Soul
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A Trap for Santa Claus
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The Way of Man
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Getting Even
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The Son's Return
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Those Awful Hats
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At the Altar
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The Sealed Room
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Edgar Allen Poe
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The Cord of Life
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The Maniac Cook
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Love Finds a Way
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The Criminal Hypnotist
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Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
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A Rural Elopement
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The Honor of Thieves
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The Welcome Burglar
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The Sacrifice
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The Fascinating Mrs. Francis
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The Necklace
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Through the Breakers
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The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals
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Sweet and Twenty
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Two Memories
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The Lonely Villa
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The Country Doctor
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A Corner in Wheat
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The Redman's View
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The Curtain Pole
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Comata, the Sioux
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Over the Hills to the Poor House
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When Knights Were Bold
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The Taming of the Shrew
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The Zulu's Heart
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The Valet's Wife
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Father Gets in the Game
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The Christmas Burglars
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Mr. Jones at the Ball
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The Invisible Fluid
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The Music Master
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Money Mad
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Hulda's Lovers
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King of the Cannibal Islands
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The King's Messenger
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Betrayed by a Handprint
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Trial Marriages
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Fights of Nations
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Mr. Hurry-up
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Jamestown Exposition
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From Leadville to Aspen: A Hold-Up in the Rockies
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San Francisco: Aftermath of Earthquake
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Married for Millions
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Dr. Dippy's Sanitarium
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Bathing in the Ice at the L Street Bath, Boston
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Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
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She Banked in Her Stocking; or, Robbed of Her All
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Peeping Tom in the Dressing Room
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A Trip to Salt Lake City
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Latina, Contortionist
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A Ballroom Tragedy
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A Kentucky Feud
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New York Subway
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In the Swimming Pool, Palm Beach, Florida
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Automobiling Among the Clouds
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The Chicken Thief
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Panorama of Machine Co. Aisle
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The Hero of Liao-Yang
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Testing a Rotary
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Panorama View, Street Car Motor Room
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Girls Taking Time Checks
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Westinghouse Works
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Alone
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Personal
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Weighing the Baby
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Hooligan in Jail
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Levi & Cohen, the Irish Comedians
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The Giddy Dancing Master
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The Dude and the Burglars
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The Fate of the Artist's Model
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Betsy Ross Dance
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A Frontier Flirtation; or, How the Tenderfoot Won Out
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Happy Hooligan Interferes
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The Haymarket
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The Physical Culture Girl, No. 1
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The Physical Culture Girl, No. 2
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Willie's Camera
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Murder Scene from "King of the Detectives"
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Strictly Fresh Eggs
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The Boy In The Barrel
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Baby in a Rage
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The Georgetown Loop (Colorado)
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Stealing a Dinner
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Panorama from the Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge
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McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio
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Little Egypt
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