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| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini in a scene from the silent motion picture, "The Grim Game." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Kitty Gray (played by Grace Cunard) sits forlornly on the straw in a dungeon in the kingdom of Grahaffen in a scene still from Episode 7 "Between Two Fires... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Lobby card for the Monogram film "The Shadow Returns," featuring several characters on a patio investigating a body that has just fallen from the roof. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Murphy the cop (played by Fred Mace) kneels as he is tormented by his wife (Dot Farley) who chokes him with one hand and raps him on the head with the othe... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | John Storm (played by Harry Benham) is in a heated discussion with a police chief or some other authority (played by Morgan Jones) in a scene still from th... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | John Storm (played by Harry Benham) slaps a moustached man (Arthur Bauer) with a piece of paper while a judge, witness (John Reinhard, rear right), court c... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Sonia Sokoloff (played by Clara Kimball Young) stands in a doorway and gestures toward a bedroom to two police officers. The officer with his head thrown b... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | In this scene still for "Angels Unawares," Ruth Stonehouse plays Freckles, a street waif, who sits forlornly in a courtroom complete with a judge, lawyers,... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | In this publicity still for the silent western "At Cripple Creek," Wallace Reid is in costume for the role of Joe Mayfield. He wears a bandanna for a tie, ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Every person in the crowded courtroom is standing in this scene still for the silent drama "Back of the Man." The center of attention is a man with a moust... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Bare-fisted Gallagher (played by William Desmond) stands in full Western costume (cowboy hat, plaid shirt, bandana neckerchief, charro chaps, leather wrist... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Wallace Reid, dressed in white tie and tails, sits on a table and looks sheepish. He is surrounded by men, one without trousers, apparently after a fistfig... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Surrounded by a crowd of extras in evening clothes, a police officer (played by Arthur Bauer) holds out a wanted poster reading "Reward $50,000 Charles Bur... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | In a scene still set in a police station for the 1915 Thanhouser silent drama "Bianca Forgets" are Bianca Wells (played by Florence La Badie wearing a whit... |
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| Description: | Walter Wanger gets his hand stamped by a prison guard. He is wearing a suit and sunglasses and holds a binder. |
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