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Charles Ray in "The Sheriff's Son"

Date: 1919
Description: Royal Beaudry (played by Charles Ray) peers cautious from the open door of a rough stone building with a revolver in his hand in a scene still from "The Sh...
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"Sylvia of the Secret Service" Movie Still

Date: 1917
Description: Still from the 1917 Pathé movie "Sylvia of the Secret Service," featuring Irene Castle (playing Sylvia Carroll), surprising a safecracker.
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"Sylvia of the Secret Service" Movie Still

Date: 1917
Description: Still from the 1917 Pathé movie "Sylvia of the Secret Service," featuring Irene Castle (playing Sylvia Carroll), captured by the villains.
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"Birth of a Nation" Street Battle

Date: 1915
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...
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Edith Storey publicity still for "As the Sun Went Down."

Date: 1919
Description: Edith Storey, in character as the female gunfighter Colonel Billy, aims her Remington revolver from the window of a log building in a publicity still for "...
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Edith Storey publicity still for "As the Sun Went Down."

Date: 1919
Description: Edith Storey, in character as the female gunfighter Colonel Billy, poses with her Remington revolver in the open door of a log building in a publicity stil...
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William Desmond scene still for "Bare-Fisted Gallagher"

Date: 1919
Description: Bare-fisted Gallagher (played by William Desmond) stands in full Western costume (cowboy hat, plaid shirt, bandana neckerchief, charro chaps, leather wrist...
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Agnes Vernon and William Desmond in a scene still for "Bare-Fisted Gallagher"

Date: 1919
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...

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