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"A Star is Born" scene still

Date: 1937
Description: Scene still of a fictional camera and sound crew shooting Frederic March (playing actor Norman Maine) and Janet Gaynor (as Vicki Lester) on set in David O....
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Second Thanhouser Studio

Date: 1914
Description: Production still showing how three or more silent film scenes could be simultaneously filmed under the glass roof of the Thanhouser studio. The print is ca...
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"Daughter of the Wolf" Scene Still

Date: 1919
Description: Lila Lee (as Annette Ainsworth) confronts the camera with a loaded revolver in a scene still from the 1919 Famous Players silent film "A Daughter of the Wo...
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D.W. Griffith Production Still

Date: 1916
Description: Director D.W. Griffith wears a straw hat and sits watching a scene being filmed in a production still that has been heavily retouched for print reproductio...
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Production Still with Harry Beaumont, Bryant Washburn and Hazel Daly

Date: 1917
Description: Essanay silent film director Harry Beaumont, wearing tinted pince-nez, watches Bryant Washburn and Hazel Daly act out a scene for "Filling His Own Shoes." ...
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"Happiness" Production Still

Date: 1924
Description: On the left, cameraman Chester A. Lyons cranking a Bell & Howell model 2709 and director King Vidor seated next to his megaphone. On the right, a line of a...
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Al Jolson, Mary Pickford, Ronald Coleman, Gloria Swanson, Douglas Fairbanks, Joseph M. Schenck, Charles Chaplin, Samuel Goldwyn and Eddie Cantor

Date: 1930
Description: Original caption: "Charging that the Fox West Coast Theatres constitute an arrogant monopoly which seeks to stifle the endeavor of motion picture artists a...
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"The Adventures of Ruth" Production Still

Date: 1919
Description: Ruth Roland sits under an unbrella in a garden scene with actors and motion picture crew members around her. A Pathé camera stands on a platform.
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Elsie Ferguson and George M. Cohan Publicity Still

Date: 1917
Description: Original caption: "FROM ARTCRAFT PICTURES CORP. Pete Schmid. Elsie Ferguson, Artcraft's newest recruit gets her initial lessons in film technique from Geo...
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"A Fool's Paradise" Scene Still

Date: 1916
Description: Rufus Stone (played by James Cooley) kisses the hand of Maxine (Christine Mayo) behind the back of her elderly husband, Wilfred Morgan (Joseph Burke), in a...
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"The Queen of Sheba" Scene Still

Date: 1921
Description: The Queen of Sheba, played by Betty Blythe, sits in a cart and holds a sword above her head in William Fox's "Queen of Sheba" (1921).
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Pauline Starke and Arthur Rankin in "Sun-Up"

Date: 1925
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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"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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James Kirkwood, Lila Lee, and their Son

Date: 1924
Description: Silent film director James Kirkwood, his wife the actress Lila Lee, and their infant son James Kirkwood, Jr.
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Fred Stone and Family in Atlantic City

Date: 1928
Description: Original caption: "Fred Stone, America's Foremost Comedian and his happy family photographed recently on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City. Left to Right: Car...
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Gloria Swanson and Joseph Theodore Swanson

Date: 1923
Description: Silent film star Gloria Swanson and her father U.S. Army Captain Joseph T. Swanson.
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Constance Talmadge, Natalie Talmadge, Margaret Talmadge and Norma Talmadge

Date: 05 31 1921
Description: Original caption: "Constance Talmadge, Natalie Talmadge, Mrs. Talmadge, and Norma Talmadge at the Talmadge-Keaton wedding at Norma Talmadge's estate at Bay...
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H.B. Warner, Joan Warner and Rita Stanwood Warner

Date: 1921
Description: Original caption: "Mr. Warner's spare moments are divided between cleansing his car and photographing his baby while Mrs Warner devoted herself to photogra...
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Natalie Talmadge and Her Baby

Date: 1922
Description: Original caption: "Natalie Talmadge Keaton and Joseph Talmadge Keaton better known as 'Buster Keaton Jr.'"
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Claire Windsor, her Parents and her Son

Date: 1922
Description: Silent film star Claire Windsor (center) with her small son David Willis Bowes Jr. in a Fauntleroy suit, flanked by her mother, Rosella Fearing Cronk, and ...

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