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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Still from the 1917 Pathé movie "Sylvia of the Secret Service," featuring Irene Castle (playing Sylvia Carroll), surprising a safecracker. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Still from the 1917 Pathé movie "Sylvia of the Secret Service," featuring Irene Castle (playing Sylvia Carroll), captured by the villains. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Street scene from the film "The Birth of a Nation" featuring a battle between soldiers on foot and members of the Ku Klux Klan on horseback. The men on hor... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | In a scene still from "The Amazing Wife," Cicely Osborne (played by Mary MacLaren) seems disturbed by Philip Ashton (Stanhope Wheaton) who leans over her s... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | The dissolute Herbert Lorrimer (played by Howard Davies) leers at Ruth Cleave (Myrtle Steadman) as they are served champagne by an African servant wearing ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Juana de Castalar (played by Alma Reubens) has her hand kissed by Blaze Derringer (Douglas Fairbanks) in a scene still for "The Americano." Reubens is cost... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | In this scene still four men in Renaissance costume fight with swords while two women watch. The actress in the foreground is Florence Lawrence. |
| 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: | Standing in a courtyard, Raveau (played by Marc MacDermott), wearing a black cape and homburg hat, embraces Babette (Peggy Hyland) who wears the costume of... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | In this scene still from the 1911 Selig silent film "Back to the Primitive," a group of four men dressed for safari (pith helmets, jungle jackets, puttees)... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | The Arab chieftan Benchaalal (played by Pedro de Cordoba) romances the English noblewoman Lady Wyverne (Elsie Ferguson) in a scene still for the silent fil... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | English noblewoman Lady Wyverne (played by Elsie Ferguson) displays herself with a dreamy look on her face and her left arm posed above her head. She wears... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | English noblewoman Kathryn, Lady Wyverne (played by Elsie Ferguson), sits on the edge of a rustic well in a scene still for the 1917 silent film "Barbary S... |
| 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: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Wearing men's western clothing Jem Mason (played by Agnes Vernon) looks doubtfully at Bare Fisted Gallagher (William Desmond). She holds a Winchester repea... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Marion Davies, costumed as an East Indian princess, sits enthroned at the back of a lavishly decorated set surrounded by a crowd of worshipful soldiers, da... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | In this scene still for the silent drama "The Beckoning Flame," the Indian colonial administrator Harry Dickson (played by Henry Woodruff) and his English ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | In a scene still for the silent drama "The Beggar of Crawnpore," H. B. Warner poses in character as Dr. Robert Lowndes, a British army doctor in India. He ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Sessue Hayakawa poses in the role of the Prince of the Island of Desire in a 3/4 length seated portrait for the 1920 silent fantasy film "The Beggar Prince... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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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