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Bert Williams

Date: 1921
Description: White Studio portrait of vaudevillian Bert Williams.
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Publicity Portait of Louise Vale

Date: 1918
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Louise Vale holding roses, by the White Studio of New York. She was a silent film actress who died from the Spanish Flu in M...
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Mazie Trumbull and Frances Trumbull, vaudeville performers.

Date: 1906
Description: Mazie Trumbull, famous as a cross-dresser and dancer, and her sister Frances, side by side in a White Studio photograph.
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Dorothy Jardon in "A Winsome Widow"

Date: 1912
Description: Dorothy Jardon in a large hat and beaded dress in a publicity photograph for "A Winsome Widow," a musical comedy that played at the Ziegfeld Moulin Rouge.
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Dorothy Jardon in "The Merry-Go-Round"

Date: 1908
Description: Dorothy Jardon in a White Studio publicity photograph for her first Broadway appearance, the musical comedy "The Merry-Go-Round," which opened at the Circl...
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Dorothy Jardon in "A Winsome Widow"

Date: 1912
Description: Dorothy Jardon wears chic black satin mourning clothes and carries a black parasol in a publicity photograph for "A Winsome Widow," a musical comedy that p...
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Dorothy Jardon

Date: 1915
Description: Half-length publicity photograph of Dorothy Jardon apparently wearing only a fur on one shoulder and many rings on her hand. Stamps on the back of the prin...
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Alice Brady

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Description: Alice Brady posing for a publicity photograph while sitting on a cushioned seat and leaning in one direction. She is wearing a wide brimmed hat and a dress...
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Aline MacMahon

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Description: Publicity photograph of actress Aline MacMahon. She sits with her shoulder to the camera and looks over her shoulder to the side. Her face and shoulder a...
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John Barrymore and Eda Bruna

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Description: John Barrymore and Eda Bruna stand next to each other in a scene from the 1909-1910 play The Fortune Hunter. They appear to be in a restaurant or a drug s...
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Will Allen

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of Will Allen, a Congressional reporter representing the Lithuanian Daily News of Chicago.
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Mae West in the play "Diamond Lil"

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Description: Publicity photograph of Mae West for the 1928 play Diamond Lil. West lounges in a large bed shaped like a swan. She holds papers in one hand a cig...

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