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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Publicity still for the Artcraft movie "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm," featuring Mary Pickford in the title role, in costume, reading the book by Kate Dougla... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Scene still from the Betzwood Film Co. silent film "Speedy Meade," featuring Louis Bennison as Speedy Meade. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Scene still from the American Film Co. silent film "The Intrusion of Isabel," featuring Alan Forrest (playing Jack Craig) and Mary Miles Minter (playing Is... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Murphy the cop (played by Fred Mace) kneels as he is tormented by his wife (Dot Farley) who chokes him with one hand and raps him on the head with the othe... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The Reverend Eric Norton (played by Hobart Bosworth) stands preaching next to Jesus (also played by Hobart Bosworth) who has a lamb in his arms. This elabo... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The Reverend Eric Norton (played by Hobart Bosworth) entertains a baby with a teddy bear in a publicity still from "The Scarlet Sin" (Universal, 1915). |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Half-length promotional still of John Barrymore playing Sherlock Holmes in a night scene from "Sherlock Holmes' (Goldwyn 1922). |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Billy the pageboy (played by Jerry Devine) talks to Sherlock Holmes (John Barrymore), who is stretched out on a sofa smoking a pipe in a scene still from t... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Original caption on reverse of print reads: "Principals in Corsican drama, 'A Daughter of Caliente.' Douglas Gerrard, producer and actor and his leading l... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Snowy outdoor location scene still from the 1919 Famous Players silent film "A Daughter of the Wolf," featuring Lila Lee (playing Annette Ainsworth) and Cl... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Actress Bessie Barriscale looking thoughtful on a chaise lounge as she plays Mary Lee, a Virginia debutante, in "A Trick of Fate" (Exhibitors Mutual, 1919)... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Actress Bessie Barriscale as Anna Gerard, the Parisian singer at the Black Rat night club in "A Trick of Fate" (Exhibitors Mutual, 1919). |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Larry Young (played by Wallace Reid in the uniform of a sergeant in the Canadian army) embraces Elaine Debaux (Ann Little in a nurse's cape) in a scene sti... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Vivian Martin (playing Lindy) confronts Togo the dog whom she has caught washing a toddler (or perhaps a doll) in a washtub in "An Innocent Adventuress" (L... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A menacing Sessu Hayakawa looms over a terrified Fannie Ward in a scene from the silent film "The Cheat" (Paramount 1915). In the upper right hand corner, ... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Sherlock Holmes (played by John Barrymore) and Alice Faulkner (Carol Dempster) in a night-time scene still for the 1922 silent film version of "Sherlock Ho... |
| 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: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Dr. Dimitrius (played by Pedro de Cordoba) looks meaningfully at Diana May (Marion Davies) who clings to Commander Richard Cleeve (Forrest Stanley) in a sc... |
| 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... |
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