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Title: Advertisement for motion picture "Down to the Sea in Ships", 1921 Accession Number: 1988.23.490 Category: POSTCARDS Type: photographic postcard Maker: Place: Date: 1921 Materials: paper Description: Photographic postcard, advertising film "Down to the Sea in Ships"; ['starring' whaleship CHARLES W. MORGAN; made in 1921] obverse has silhouette of whale, beneath is printed Psalm 107-23:24; below is description of movie, mentioning screenwriter John L. E. Pell, director Elmer Clifton, cameraman Alex G. Penrod, and composers Henry F. Gilbert and Phelps Decker; reverse has cast list and still scene from film.

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