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| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length portrait of Billie Burke distributed as publicity for the 1909 Broadway comedy Love Watches. This Sarony Studio portrait is a s... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Billie Burke raises a glass posed as the servant girl in the operetta The Dutchess of Dantzic which premiered in October 1903 at the Lyric Theatre i... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Billie Burke carries a tea tray as the servant girl in the operetta The Dutchess of Dantzic which premiered in October 1903 at the Lyric Theatre in ... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | The cast members Billie Burke, James Blakeley, and Maude Percival as characters from The School Girl. Billie Burke was a hit when she sang "Put M... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Billie Burke, G.P. Huntley, and Norma Whalley as characters from The School Girl. Billie Burke was a hit when she sang "Put Me in My Little Canoe... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Billie Burke wearing a lovely white dress and large hat decorated with roses in a nearly full length publicity postcard distributed in 1905 for her appeara... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | An embossed color postcard with two head and shoulders portraits of Billie Burke produced by the Philco Publishing Company of London, England. Caption read... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Johnston & Hoffmann publicity photograph of Billie Burke in a lacy dress with her hair piled on top of her head. Reproduced as a postcard by J. Beagles & C... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders publicity portrait of Billie Burke resting her cheek on her hand. She wears long white gloves and a large lacy white hat. Published as a... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Lenore Ulric draws her bow crouched on a papier-mâché boulder. She starred as Wetona in the 1916 Frohman-Belasco Broadway production The Heart of Wetona... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Broadway star Lenore Ulric, dressed and made-up for the stage, listens to an early portable radio receiver. |
| 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: | 1901 |
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| Description: | The young Italian operatic soprano Lina Cavalieri in suggestive deshabille, her pearl decorated dress falling off her shoulders. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | W.C. Fields in a publicity still from the Broadway show "Poppy". He is seated in an ornate chair and is wearing a top hat, checkered pants and spats. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini, the well-known escape artist, was born in Budapest, Hungary and raised in Appleton, Wisconsin. At the time of his immigration his name was s... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length publicity portrait of renowned escape artist Harry Houdini. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of the renowned escape artist Harry Houdini. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Harry and Bess (Beatrice) Houdini in formal attire, the year of his death from acute appendicitis. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini in a scene from the silent motion picture, "The Grim Game." |
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