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William Farnum in "Last of the Duanes"

Date: 1919
Description: William Farnum and a little girl in a scene still from "Last of the Duanes," a silent film based upon a Zane Grey story (Fox, 1919).
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"The Queen of Sheba" Scene Still

Date: 1921
Description: Betty Blythe as the Queen of Sheba and Fritz Leiber as King Solomon in a still from "The Queen of Sheba," a silent William Fox mega-production of 1921. The...
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"The Queen of Sheba" Scene Still

Date: 1921
Description: Betty Blythe as the Queen of Sheba and Fritz Leiber as King Solomon stand before their thrones and face one another with attendants in the background.
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Jane Lee and Katherine Lee in a scene still.

Date: 1918
Description: The child actors Jane Lee and her sister Katherine divide a man's pajama top and bottom between them in a cute scene still for "American Buds."
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Holmes Herbert and Pearl White in a scene still.

Date: 1922
Description: Philip Gray (played by Holmes Herbert) is intent on seducing Myrtle Hill (Pearl White), the wife of his business associate. They sit together, wearing even...
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Scene still with Francis Carpenter, Herschel Mayall, and Virginia Lee Corbin.

Date: 1917
Description: John Hamilton (played by Herschel Mayall) sits on a couch with two children: Roland, who is in a sailor suit, played by Francis Carpenter and Rose, who is ...
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Publicity still of Theda Bara

Date: 1918
Description: In this publicity still for the 1918 Fox silent drama "The She-Devil," Theda Bara poses outdoors with cherries hanging from her lips and four giant pom-pom...
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Publicity still of Charles Jones, also known as Buck Jones

Date: 1922
Description: Fox silent film star Charles Jones, later known as Buck Jones, poses outdoors in a cowboy hat in a publicity still for the 1922 silent western "Bells of Sa...
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Theda Bara and another actor in a scene still

Date: 1918
Description: Lolette, the Spanish peasant girl (played by Theda Bara) uses a knife to defend herself from a middle aged man in a scene still for the silent drama "The S...
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Monte Blue, Miriam Cooper, and Hobart Bosworth in a publicity still

Date: 1917
Description: In this publicity still for "Betrayed," a 1917 Fox silent drama set in Mexico, the actors Monte Blue, Miriam Cooper, and Hobart Bosworth pose in costume ag...
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Louis Haines, Pearl White, and Arthur Gordini in a scene still

Date: 1921
Description: Sally Marrio (played by Pearl White) appears to be falling with a rake end poker in her hand as the banker J. Peter Weathersby (Louis Haines) watches from ...
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Louis Haines and Pearl White seated in a scene still

Date: 1921
Description: The banker J. Peter Weathersby (played by Louis Haines grinning with a cigar in his hand) sits beside Sally Marrio (Pearl White) who is delivering a pair o...
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Pearl White publicity still with fur coat

Date: 1921
Description: Pearl White, in character as Sally Marrio, wears a chinchilla coat in a publicity still for the silent melodrama "Beyond Price."

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