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Constance Talmadge, Norma Talmadge, and Natalie Talmadge with Bull Terrier, a Parakeet, and a Pomeranian

Date: 1918
Description: An ambitious studio portrait of the Talmadge sisters, Constance, Norma, and Natalie, posed with a parakeet, American Staffordshire bull terrier, and a Pome...
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"The Daughter of the Gods" Production Still

Date: 1916
Description: From left to right: Cameraman J. Roy Hunt with a Pathé camera, Annette Kellerman (seated), and director Herbert Brenon pointing to a caravan scene in the v...
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Vitagraph Production Still

Date: 1916
Description: Frederick A. Thomson (at left in straw hat), Charles J. Davis (cranking what appears to be a Moy & Bastie camera), J. Stuart Blackton (in cap and bow tie a...
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Florence La Badie, Carl Leviness, and Harry Benham

Date: 1912
Description: Florence La Badie (sitting on stage in light coat and hat), Carl Leviness (leaning against stage with megaphone), and Harry Benham (far right looking up at...
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Antonio Moreno and Film Crew

Date: 1917
Description: Antonio Moreno in make-up, jodhpurs, and an undershirt, sits under an umbrella along with a cameraman and a Bell & Howell camera with other cast and crew m...
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Cullen Landis with Camera

Date: 1917
Description: Original caption: "Cullen Landis, who has become one of the screen's most popular figures, used to be a camera-man, or cinematographer, as they say in Fren...
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Marguerite Clark

Date: 1917
Description: Marguerite Clark looks through the viewfinder of a Pathé motion picture camera in a publicity still.
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Eclair Company

Date: 1913
Description: An outdoor studio used by the Eclair American Company while making silent films. Shown are four or five actors in a restaurant set on a low platform covere...
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Thomas Ince and William S. Hart production still

Date: 1915
Description: Thomas H. Ince gestures to a cameraman who is moving a Bell & Howell camera on its tripod. Over Ince's shoulder is William S. Hart in costume as a minister...
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Earle Williams

Date: 1918
Description: Earle Williams, Vitagraph star, studies a script in front of a bank of Cooper-Hewitt lights.
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Keystone Film Company Pool

Date: 1915
Description: Production still of the Keystone pool. On the far left is Mack Sennett, coatless, in derby and suspenders. On the far right is Adam Kessel, coatless, in a ...
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"Sic 'Em, Sam" Promotional Still

Date: 1918
Description: Democracy (played by Douglas Fairbanks) punches Prussianism (Bull Montana) on the jaw in a promotional still from "Sic 'Em, Sam" a short silent film made f...
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"Our Boys in France Tobacco Fund"

Date: 1918
Description: Original caption: "Mary Pickford getting tobacco and cigarettes for the soldiers. In addition to supplying her own adopted contingents, Miss Pickford has s...
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"A Liberty Bond Plea" Scene Still

Date: 1918
Description: Original caption: "Charles Ray in a Liberty Loan Film by courtesy Famous Players-Lasky Corporation and Thomas H. Ince. Distributed by the National Associat...
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Edith Storey, Ambulance Driver

Date: 05 1919
Description: "For months Miss Storey has been driving a war ambulance in the streets of New York--a work no less valuable than handling one behind the Flanders lines. A...
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Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. Family

Date: 1916
Description: Billie Burke, her baby daughter Patricia Burke Ziegfeld, and her husband Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr.
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Gish Sisters and their Mother

Date: 1918
Description: Original caption: "Mrs. Gish & her two talented girls. Dorothy is entertaining the parrot with a comb solo while Lillian does something to Poll."
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Louise Huff and Mary-Louise Jones

Date: 1919
Description: Actress Louise Huff and her small daughter Mary-Louise whose father was the actor and film director Edgar Jones.
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Louise Homer and Children

Date: 1915
Description: Original caption from a newspaper clipping: "Mme. Louise Homer, Famous Contralto, and her four children. Mme. Homer, famous American prima donna, is also o...
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Cullen Landis, Daughter and Dog

Date: 1918
Description: Silent film actor Cullen Landis with his three-year-old daughter.

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