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Annie Oakley takes aim at a flying object in this poster for Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. The background vignettes show two of her classic feats -- jumping over a table to pick up a gun and shoot, and firing at glass balls that her husband and assistant Frank Butler threw into the air.

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