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| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Natalie Talmadge Keaton and Joseph Talmadge Keaton better known as 'Buster Keaton Jr.'" |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Silent film star Claire Windsor in a lacy summer dress and sun hat with her small son Billy outdoors. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Silent film star Claire Windsor in a lacy summer dress and sun hat sits on the grass with her small son Billy. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Silent film actress Pearl White outdoors with her father Edgar White. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | The actor Edward M. Kimball, wearing pince-nez, reads a script to his daughter, the silent film star Clara Kimball Young. She is on a chaise lounge with a ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | "The original Comet Theatre 100 3rd Ave. New York City." Playbills in front of the nickelodeon advertise "A Mightier Hand," "Love in Mexico," "Jefferies-J... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | From a high angle, this snapshot shows actors, crew, and bystanders at an open-air studio under canvas diffusers at Universal City. The cameraman stands be... |
| Date: | 03 15 1915 |
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| Description: | Gathered for the grand opening of Universal City are the general manager of the Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Isadore Bernstein (in a white belted ... |
| Date: | 03 15 1915 |
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| Description: | At the grand opening of Universal City are the general manager of the Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Isadore Bernstein (in a white belted Norfolk su... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Seven well-dressed tourists visit Universal City and pose with actor Neal Hart who is in cowboy costume and has his horse nearby. A water tower is visible ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Actor Neal Hart in cowboy costume on a horse being filmed with a Bell & Howell 2709 motion picture camera in the countryside near Universal City. A group o... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Nellie Nolan (left, played by Edith Taliaferro) and her friend Lou (Florence Dagmar) conspire to make Nellie appear to be the well-traveled heiress Ethel V... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Surrounded by wealthy hotel guests dressed in formal evening wear, Nellie Nolan (played by Edith Taliaferro) learns that the person she is pretending to be... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Held against her will on a desolate island, Nellie Nolan (played by Edith Taliaferro) is forced to write her own kidnapping note by Spagnoli (Al Ernest Gar... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Nellie Nolan (played by Edith Taliaferro) signs the register of an expensive resort hotel under the assumed name Ethel Van Dusen in a scene still from "You... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | The Maharajah of Dharmagar (played by Rudolph Valentino) embraces Molly Cabot (Wanda Hawley) in a scene still from "The Young Rajah" (1922). Valentino wear... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Rudolph Valentino poses wearing very little but an elaborate breechcloth decorated with pearls for his role as the Maharajah of Dharmagar in "The Young Raj... |
| 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: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Esther Meyers (played by Vera Gordon) and her son Robert Meyers (Harry Benham) in a scene still from "Your Best Friend" (Rapf 1922). |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Esther Meyers (played by Vera Gordon) discovers her son Robert Meyers (Harry Benham) and Aida (Belle Bennett) embracing in the kitchen. |
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