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Scene Still from The Jazz Singer

Date: 1927
Description: A still from the film The Jazz Singer showing Eugenie Besserer, Al Jolson, and Warner Oland (Warner 1927).
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Houdini in Chains

Date: 1919
Description: Harry Houdini in a scene from the silent motion picture, "The Grim Game."
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Poster for "The Broken Rosary"

Date: 1914
Description: Color lithograph poster on paper. At the top reads "The Dubinsky Corporation presents a new comedy of Youth," under which in larger letters is the title. U...
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Hobart Bosworth in "The Scarlet Sin"

Date: 1915
Description: The Reverend Eric Norton (played by Hobart Bosworth) stands preaching next to Jesus (also played by Hobart Bosworth) who has a lamb in his arms. This elabo...
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Hobart Bosworth in "The Scarlet Sin"

Date: 1915
Description: The Reverend Eric Norton (played by Hobart Bosworth) entertains a baby with a teddy bear in a publicity still from "The Scarlet Sin" (Universal, 1915).
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Scene Still with Leslie Casey and Wallace Reid

Date: 1922
Description: The Reverend David Burroughs (played by Leslie Casey) has a serious discussion with William Burroughs (Wallace Reid) in a scene still from "The World's Cha...
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Frank McGlynn, Sr., and Miriam Nesbitt

Date: 1915
Description: Roger Davis (left, played by Frank McGlynn Sr.) and Effie Dorgan (played by Miriam Nesbitt dressed as a nun and holding a child) with an unidentified actor...
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Wallace Reid, Gloria Swanson, and Theodore Kosloff

Date: 1921
Description: Anatol Spencer (played by Wallace Reid) carries his wife Vivian (Gloria Swanson) in his arms. She has been mesmerized by Nazzer Singh the Hindu hypnotist (...
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Owen Moore and Florence Lawrence in a scene still

Date: 1912
Description: Owen Moore, costumed as a minister, talks to Florence Lawrence by a gate in front of a house in a scene still from a silent drama, possibly "The Redemption...

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