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Publicity Portrait of Rudolph Valentino

Date: 1922
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Rudolph Valentino dressed as the matador Juan Gallardo in the 1922 Famous Players-Lasky production Blood and Sand.
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Houdini in Chains in "Terror Island"

Date: 1920
Description: Harry Houdini, world famous escape artist who spent his boyhood in Appleton, Wisconsin, sitting in a chair wrapped in chains in a scene from the silent fil...
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Wallace Reid, head and shoulders portrait

Date: 1920
Description: Head and shoulders studio publicity portrait of silent film star Wallace Reid in white tie and tails.

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