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Scene still with Milton Sills and Mabel Julienne Scott in a child's bedroom

Date: 1920
Description: Frank Armour (played by Milton Sills) and his wife Lali (Mabel Julienne Scott) stand on either side of their sleeping child's bed in a scene still for the ...
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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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Lottie Briscoe wearing western wear in a publicity still

Date: 1914
Description: In a publicity still for the Lubin silent film series "The Beloved Adventurer," Lottie Briscoe wears a corduroy western dress, boots, and a cowboy hat.
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Scene still with John Bowers, Alice Brady, and Frank Mayo

Date: 1917
Description: George Washington's aide Joseph Ashburn (played by John Bowers in Revolutionary War uniform) confronts Clarence Vernon (Frank Mayo) who has been hiding in ...
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Dorothy Gish publicity still

Date: 1916
Description: Publicity still of Dorothy Gish costumed for the role of Betty Lockwood in the silent drama "Betty of Graystone." She wears a wide bonnet with roses undern...
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Robert Z. Leonard in uniform in a scene still

Date: 1915
Description: Robert Z. Leonard costumed as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army in the Civil War, pauses warily by a window in a scene still for the silent drama "Betty'...
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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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Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino studio publicity still

Date: 1922
Description: Gloria Swanson, as Theodora Fitzgerald, and Rudolph Valentino, as Lord Hector Bracondale, in a full-length seated Keyes studio publicity still for the 1922...
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Gloria Swanson rescued by Rudolph Valentino, scene still

Date: 1922
Description: Gloria Swanson (as Theodora Fitzgerald) is carried in the arms of Rudolph Valentino (Lord Hector Bracondale) in her rescue from a snowy mountain ledge in a...
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Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson in a garden, scene still

Date: 1922
Description: Lord Hector Bracondale, played by Rudolph Valentino, approaches Theodora Fitzgerald (Gloria Swanson) by a gate in a garden wall covered with camellias. The...
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Goria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, and a handkerchief, scene still

Date: 1922
Description: Theodora Fitzgerald (played by Gloria Swanson) looks into the eyes of Lord Hector Bracondale (Rudolph Valentino) who is returning her handkerchief in a sce...
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Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino production still in costume

Date: 1922
Description: In this production still for the silent drama "Beyond the Rocks," Gloria Swanson costumed in an elaborate 18th century satin dress shades the head of Rudol...
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Wallace Reid, an unidentifed actress, and Kathlyn Williams, scene still

Date: 1917
Description: Lumberman Jack Fyfe (played by Wallace Reid) is caught embracing Neemis, the Indian kitchen maid, by his wife Stella Barton (Kathlyn Williams) in the cookh...
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Mae Marsh publicity still for "The Birth of a Nation"

Date: 1915
Description: In this publicity still for D.W. Griffith's silent drama "The Birth of a Nation," Mae Marsh is in Southern antebellum costume for her role as Flora Cameron...
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Mary Alden publicity still for "Milestones"

Date: 1920
Description: In this publicity still for the Goldwyn silent drama "Milestones," Mary Alden is in 1860s costume for her role as Rose Sibley.
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Henry Walthall scene still for "The Birth of a Nation"

Date: 1915
Description: In this half length scene still for D.W. Griffith's silent drama "The Birth of a Nation," Henry Walthall stands outdoors costumed for his role as Ben Camer...
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Mary Miles Minter and Alan Forrest struggle in a scene still

Date: 1918
Description: Dressed in her brother's clothes, Phyllis King (played by Mary Miles Minter) struggles with Grayson Blair (Alan Forrest) in a scene still for the silent dr...
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Mary Miles Minter and Alan Forrest in a scene still by a boat house

Date: 1918
Description: Grayson Blair (played by Alan Forrest) discovers that the boy he has seized is actually Phyllis King (played by Mary Miles Minter) dressed in her brother's...

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