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| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Rudolph Valentino and his wife Natacha Rambova pose with their Voisin automobile. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | French-born silent film actor Gaston Glass at the wheel of a touring car with a spare tire mounted on the running board. Glass later became an assistant di... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Comic actor Fred Stone holding the tiller of an early two-seat runabout. The automobile may be a Woods Electric or Woods Dual Power. Stone had been a circu... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini, the well-known escape artist, was born in Budapest, Hungary and raised in Appleton, Wisconsin. At the time of his immigration his name was s... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | John Dent (played by Theodore Roberts) greets Louise Fowler (Mary MacLaren) and his son Jimmy Dent (Wallace Reid) after they have won a transcontinental au... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Night-time scene still from the Triangle silent film "Taxi," featuring Taylor Holmes (playing Robert Hervey Randolph) leaning on his taxi. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Still from the 1922 Hodkinson film "Affinities," featuring Pietro Sosso (as Professor Savage), John Bowers (as Day Illington), and Colleen Moore (as Fanny ... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Production still showing the technique of rear projection. A 1951 Ford, jacked up in front so the steering wheel can turn, sits in front of a rear projecti... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Yvonne Halbert (played by Mary Miles Minter) and Lawrence Bartlett (Alan Forrest) make pains to ignore each other as they sit side-by-side in the back of a... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Bab Archibald (played by Marguerite Clark) washes a very muddy automobile that appears to be an Overland open touring car in this scene still for "Bab's Bu... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Bab Archibald (played by Marguerite Clark) washes a very muddy automobile that appears to be an Overland open touring car in this scene still for "Bab's Bu... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Tommy Gray (played by Richard Barthelmess) has his ring returned by Bab Archibald (Marguerite Clark) in a scene still for "Bab's Burglar." Barthelmess wear... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Actress Ella Hall sits behind the wheel of an open roadster automobile, perhaps a Stutz Bearcat. Sitting beside her is Robert Z. Leonard costumed for a cou... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Owen Moore is behind the wheel of a two-seat open roadster automobile with Dorothy Gish beside him in this scene still for the silent drama "Betty of Grays... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Publicity still from 1913 heavily retouched for the July 7, 1928, issue of Liberty (magazine). The original caption reads: "Wallace Reid and Dorothy Davenp... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Argentine film poster. Partially photographic and partially illustrated image of a man driving an older model car, with two other men and two women riding ... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Argentine film poster. Photographic collage of different images from scenes in the film featuring various characters. Most of the men are wearing suits, an... |
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| Description: | Still photograph of Nancy Allen and Fred MacMurray riding through the clouds in his Flubber powered Model T. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Daniel J. Travanti smiles as he stands outside on a lawn. He is wearing a suit with a flower pinned to his lapel and is dressed up for his high school grad... |
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| Description: | Fatty Arbuckle siting on a car fender holding Alice Mann in a still from the short film "His Wedding Night." Al St. John is lying on the ground under the c... |
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