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Scene Still from A Girl of Yesterday

Date: 1915
Description: Donald Crisp, aviator Glenn Martin, and Mary Pickford in the 1915 silent comedy A Girl of Yesterday (Famous Players-Lasky, 1915). Martin is wearing ...
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The Great Train Robbery

Date: 1903
Description: Robbers, guns drawn, escort the engineer from the locomotive in a scene from The Great Train Robbery.
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Theodore Roberts, Mary MacLaren, and Wallace Reid in "Across the Continent"

Date: 1922
Description: John Dent (played by Theodore Roberts) greets Louise Fowler (Mary MacLaren) and his son Jimmy Dent (Wallace Reid) after they have won a transcontinental au...
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"Taxi" Scene Still

Date: 1919
Description: Night-time scene still from the Triangle silent film "Taxi," featuring Taylor Holmes (playing Robert Hervey Randolph) leaning on his taxi.
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"Bill Henry" Scene Still

Date: 1919
Description: Scene still from the Paramount silent film "Bill Henry," featuring Charles Ray (playing Bill Henry Jenkins) setting off on his bicycle to begin his new job...
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"Affinities" Scene Still

Date: 1922
Description: Still from the 1922 Hodkinson film "Affinities," featuring Pietro Sosso (as Professor Savage), John Bowers (as Day Illington), and Colleen Moore (as Fanny ...
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Marguerite Clark scene still with automobile.

Date: 1917
Description: Bab Archibald (played by Marguerite Clark) washes a very muddy automobile that appears to be an Overland open touring car in this scene still for "Bab's Bu...
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Marguerite Clark scene still washing an automobile.

Date: 1917
Description: Bab Archibald (played by Marguerite Clark) washes a very muddy automobile that appears to be an Overland open touring car in this scene still for "Bab's Bu...
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Scene still with Richard Barthelmess and Marguerite Clark.

Date: 1917
Description: Tommy Gray (played by Richard Barthelmess) has his ring returned by Bab Archibald (Marguerite Clark) in a scene still for "Bab's Burglar." Barthelmess wear...
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Scene still with Marguerite Clark, Richard Barthelmess, and a bicycle.

Date: 1917
Description: As Bab Archibald (played by Marguerite Clark) and Tommy Gray (Richard Barthelmess) share a bicycle, Tommy tries to steal a kiss in a scene still for "Bab...
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Ella Hall and Robert Z. Leonard in a scene still

Date: 1916
Description: Actress Ella Hall sits behind the wheel of an open roadster automobile, perhaps a Stutz Bearcat. Sitting beside her is Robert Z. Leonard costumed for a cou...
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Actors Owen Moore and Dorothy Gish in a roadster

Date: 1916
Description: Owen Moore is behind the wheel of a two-seat open roadster automobile with Dorothy Gish beside him in this scene still for the silent drama "Betty of Grays...
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Charles Ray and broken bike, scene still

Date: 1919
Description: It is a disastrous day for traveling salesman Bill Henry Jenkins (played by Charles Ray) who has just wrecked his bicycle in a scene still for the silent c...
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Olga Petrova and Mahlon Hamilton rural scene still

Date: 1916
Description: In a heavily retouched scene still for the silent drama "The Black Butterfly," Sonia Smirnov (played by Olga Petrova) and Alan Hall (Mahlon Hamilton) stand...
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Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, and an unknown actor in a scene still

Date: 1922
Description: Buster Keaton hoists a Model T engine from a wrecked car as Virginia Fox flirts with an unidentified actor in a scene still for the 1922 comedy short "The ...

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