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Mabel Trunnelle Holding a Goat

Date: 1917
Description: Mabel Trunnelle, player in Edison Company silent films from 1909, is dressed in a white sailor's suit and straw hat and holds a young goat.
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Earle Williams and a Collie

Date: 1918
Description: Vitagraph silent film star Earle Williams wags his finger at a collie.
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Clara Kimball Young and an Irish Terrier Puppy

Date: 1919
Description: Clara Kimball Young and an Irish terrier puppy on the ground in front of a sign saying "Beware of the dog. Keep Out". Original caption: "Clara Kimball ...
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Clara Kimball Young and a Chow

Date: 1919
Description: Clara Kimball Young and a chow sitting in the sun on the stoop in front of a stucco house. Original caption: "Clara Kimball Young and her prize Chow do...
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Clara Kimball Young, an Automobile, and a Chow Dog

Date: 1918
Description: The silent film actress Clara Kimball Young, dressed for a drive in a military-styled coat with patch pockets and a dark straw hat, stands beside a car wit...
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Clara Kimball Young Holding a Black Cat

Date: 1915
Description: Heavily retouched seated portrait of the silent film star Clara Kimball Young with a black cat on her lap. Original caption: "Clara Kimball Young who w...
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Al Harveaux, Acrobat and Contortionist

Date: 1910
Description: Allie Harveaux, an acrobat, in a promotional photograph for his balancing act. His body is parallel to the floor supported only by his right hand which is ...
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Clara Kimball Young and a Monkey

Date: 1918
Description: In this snapshot silent film actress Clara Kimball Young holds a white-faced capuchin monkey wearing clothes and a cap. A girl and man are in the backgroun...
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Gaston Glass in his New Car

Date: 1922
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...
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Douglas Fairbanks and a Stutz Bearcat Automobile

Date: 1918
Description: Silent film star Douglas Fairbanks stands in the cockpit of a Stutz Bearcat roadster.
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Florence Lawrence in a Lozier Automobile

Date: 1912
Description: A publicity still of Victor Film Company silent film star Florence Lawrence driving a Lozier open touring car with 1912 Pennsylvania license plates.
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Fred Stone in an Early Automobile.

Date: 1905
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...
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Albert E. Smith, Antonio Moreno, and a Small Racing Car

Date: 1920
Description: Albert E. Smith, one of the founders of the Vitagraph motion picture company, stands with a cigar in his mouth looking down at the silent film star Antonio...
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Antonio Moreno in a Racing Car

Date: 1920
Description: Vitagraph silent film star Antonio Moreno sits grinning beind the wheel of a very small racing car in a photograph heavily retouched for print reproduction...
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Mary Miles Minter and James Kirkwood

Date: 08 16 1916
Description: The fifteen-year-old silent film actress Mary Miles Minter stands beside a two-seat roadster automobile looking at the director James Kirkwood sitting at t...
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Vivian Martin in a Cadillac Automobile

Date: 1916
Description: Silent film actress Vivian Martin sits behind the wheel of what appears to be a 1916 Cadillac two-door coupe.
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Robert Warwick and a Stutz Bearcat Automobile

Date: 1916
Description: Silent film star Robert Warwick in heavy fur coat and hat leaning over the engine of a Stutz Bearcat roadster. Original caption: "D--n that carburetor....
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Robert Warwick and a Stutz Bearcat Automobile

Date: 1916
Description: Silent film star Robert Warwick in heavy fur coat and hat sits in the driver's seat of a Stutz Bearcat roadster for a publicity photograph. Original cap...
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Niles Welch Working on a Hudson Automobile

Date: 09 1918
Description: Silent film actor Niles Welch on the ground underneath the front of a 1918 Hudson Super Six touring limousine. Apparently he is using a carpenter's brace d...
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Niles Welch Sawing a Hudson Automobile

Date: 09 1918
Description: Silent film actor Niles Welch is apparently using a wood saw on the engine of a 1918 Hudson Super Six touring limousine. Other carpenter's tools--a plane a...

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