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| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | A boxing ring lobby display at the Empire Theatre for Battling Butler with Buster Keaton. The lobby cards read, "It's a knockout. Buster Keaton in '... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Baby Rose Marie is shown singing at an NBC radio microphone. This is seen in the National Union Radio Corporation publicity booklet "Radio Stars of Today." |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | A crowd is gathered around MGM's "trackless train" outside the Astor Theater where "The Big Parade" is showing. Also visible is a gigantic advertisement fo... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Rudolph Valentino and his wife Natacha Rambova pose with their Voisin automobile. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Original title: "This is one of the rare snapshots which a photographer gets only once in a peagreen moon. Dorothy Phillips, star of Allen Holubar's Th... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Silent film actress Ruth Roland in riding costume and a velveteen cap playing with a small monkey. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Silent film actress Anita Stewart poses with a golf bag slung over her shoulder and a German shepherd dog. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Silent film actress Anita Stewart holds a live rabbit and wears a dead fox. Original caption: "Anita Stewart with her pet rabbits at her home in Hollyw... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | An ambitious studio portrait of the Talmadge sisters, Constance, Norma, and Natalie, posed with a parakeet, American Staffordshire bull terrier, and a Pome... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Silent film actor Richard Tucker wears a gray suit and checked cap and has a pipe in his mouth as he pets his dog. Original caption: "Richard Tucker, G... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Broadway actress Eleanor Woodruff, wearing a dress with flared sleeves, a feathered hat, and pearls, posed with a white bull terrier. Original caption: ... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Charmion (1875-1949, born Laverie Cooper in Sacramento) was a vaudeville trapeze artist and strongwoman who performed a trapeze striptease in 1897 that mad... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Mazie Trumbull, famous as a cross-dresser and dancer, and her sister Frances, side by side in a White Studio photograph. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | French-born silent film actor Gaston Glass at the wheel of a touring car with a spare tire mounted on the running board. Glass later became an assistant di... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Comic actor Fred Stone holding the tiller of an early two-seat runabout. The automobile may be a Woods Electric or Woods Dual Power. Stone had been a circu... |
| Date: | 08 1928 |
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| Description: | A man operates a Mitchell camera from inside an MGM sound booth as Raquel Torres and Nils Asther perform seated in front of lights and a microphone. Direct... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Photograph of the winter studios of the Kalem Company showing outbuildings on the grounds of the Roseland Hotel on the St. Johns River near Jacksonville, F... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Pauline Starke (as Emmy) and Arthur Rankin (as Bud) pose in a production still from the 1925 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production "Sun-Up." Behind them are two o... |
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