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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | In this scene still for the 1915 silent short film "The Baby," Teddy the Dog lies on the beach and looks out at the Pacific. Baby Guerin has been placed on... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | In this scene still from the 1918 Goldwyn production "Back to the Woods," Stephanie Trent (played by Mabel Normand) a rich man's daughter pretending to be ... |
| 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: | 1918 |
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| Description: | In a kitchen with a counter covered with baking supplies, Louise Fazenda entertains the child actor John Henry, Jr. with a snake made of dough in a scene s... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | In this scene still for "Back to Broadway" (Vitagraph 1914), Anita Stewart poses as the clown Pierrot and mimes a big kiss. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | In this scene still for "Back to Broadway" (Vitagraph 1914), Anita Stewart poses with her hands in her pockets as the clown Pierrot. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | In a rural setting, a pair of young lovers talk. Jerry Newcombe, played by Matt Moore, is bashful. Hester Bevins, played by Seena Owen, is dressed stylishl... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Every person in the crowded courtroom is standing in this scene still for the silent drama "Back of the Man." The center of attention is a man with a moust... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Dressed in the clothes of a roughneck (chambray shirt, corduroy pants, high lace-up boots), Tom Redding (played by Thomas Meighan) works on an oil rig and ... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Tucked in bed, the orphaned baby Toodles (played by Bruce Guerin) is attended by Sally Lockwood (Leatrice Joy) who is the secretary of Richard Chester (Tho... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Actress Mae Gaston gives a baby doll to a poor flower girl as an older and more prosperous girl looks on in a scene still from the 1915 Reliance film "The ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Actress Jennie Lee bends over a small flower girl who wears a kerchief on her head. They stand on the front porch of an impoverished house in this scene st... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | The prostitute called Anne of Austria, played by Mildred Owens, clasps a small cross and cries in a scene still for "The Ballad of Fisher's Boarding House.... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Louisiana doctor Dudley Duprez, played by Frank Keenan, makes a fist and glares angrily in a scene still for "The Bride of Hate," a drama of miscegenation ... |
| 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) poses on a balcony in a Moorish palace in a scene still for the silent film "Barbary Sheep." She... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | English noblewoman Lady Wyverne (played by Elsie Ferguson) poses on a balcony in a Moorish palace in a scene still for the silent film "Barbary Sheep." She... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | English noblewoman Lady Wyverne (played by Elsie Ferguson) poses on a balcony in a Moorish palace and offers her hand to Arab chieftan Benchaalal (Pedro de... |
| 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... |
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