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| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Mary MacLaren young star of "Bluebird Photoplays." |
| Date: | 12 28 1923 |
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| Description: | Likely a 1923 Goldwyn production Red Lights publicity portrait of Dagmar Godowsky wearing a beaded headdress. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders studio portrait of Florence Lawrence from about the time she joined the Mutoscope and Biograph Company in 1908. She looks up to the left... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Mae Murray, who just recently completed 'Circe,' as she looked when she appeared on the stage. Miss Murray started her career as a dance... |
| Date: | 04 20 1922 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Does Dick Barthelmess read 'fan' letters? We'll say he does. The photographer caught him on his porch opening his mail, while waiting f... |
| Date: | 04 20 1922 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "A pause in the day's occupation--'Dick' Barthelmess's muscles are called more in to play in this work than in making a round of the eig... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Publicity portrait of Ivor Novello in a light-colored suit by Herman Mishkin, New York. Original caption: "Ivor Novello in The Bohemian Girl." |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Publicity portrait of Ivor Novello by Herman Mishkin, New York. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Ramon Novarro on a motion picture set dressed as a French army officer, perhaps from Mr. Barnes of New York. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Hoover Art Studio publicity photograph of Ramon Novarro, apparently used for the 1922 production Trifling Women. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Publicity portrait of Ramon Novarro in costume for the role of Rupert of Hentzau in The Prisoner of Zenda (MGM 1922). Novarro autographed this Hoove... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Seated three-quarter length portrait of Nita Naldi by Donald Biddle Keyes, 1922. Naldi has 12 silver Spanish combs in her hair that are brightly backlit. ... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of Nita Naldi wearing a long pearl necklace and beaded dress. The photograph was probably made by Donald Biddle Keyes as publicity for... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of Nita Naldi standing by a Spanish-style chair. The photograph was probably made by Donald Biddle Keyes as publicity for the 1922 Par... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Waist-up seated portrait of Nita Naldi wearing pearls around her neck and in her hair. The photograph was made by Donald Biddle Keyes, most probably for th... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Rudolph Valentino dressed as the matador Juan Gallardo in the 1922 Famous Players-Lasky production Blood and Sand. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini in a scene from the silent motion picture, "The Grim Game." |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Billy Sullivan (right) boxes a larger man in "Fighting Mad," perhaps one of "Leather Pushers" series of Universal films made in 1923 and 1924. Billy Sulliv... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Billy Sullivan (right) has knocked his opponent to the mat in "Fighting Mad," perhaps one of the "Leather Pushers" series of Universal films made in 1923 ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Silent film star Harry Benham in a head and shoulders portrait by the Lewis-Smith Studio of Chicago, c. 1914. |
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