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Agnes Moorehead as a Child

Date: 1903
Description: Agnes Moorehead is shown at about 4 years of age. She wears a white dress stands beside a flowering bush.
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Florence Lawrence in dressing room

Date: 1914
Description: Actress Florence Lawrence seated at the vanity mirror in her dressing room wearing a white satin dressing gown and night cap.
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Daisy Bates

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Description: Head and shoulder portrait of Daisy Bates, head of the Arkansas NAACP and a key figure in the Little Rock school desegregation crisis of September 1957.
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Frank Lloyd Wright

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Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright shortly after he arrived in Chicago.
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Boston Blackie

Date: 1951
Description: Kent Taylor depicted as Boston Blackie from the television series of the same name. This photograph includes a signature.
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Striker Arrested

Date: 01 17 1946
Description: Elevated view of a Swift Company striker being taken from the CIO picket line by police. The striker was reported to have been beaten and arrested.
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Publicity Still of Nita Naldi in an Egyptian Pose

Date: 1920
Description: Original caption: "Nita Naldi, the original Aphrodite girl, who will appear in a Johnny Dooley comedy at the Pantages next week." Naldi appeared in ...
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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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Margarita Fischer and a Bulldog

Date: 1916
Description: Margarita Fischer, a Harry Pollard Picture Play star, and Pete, an English bulldog.
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Olive Thomas, a Parrot, and a Boston Bull Terrier

Date: 1920
Description: Silent film star Olive Thomas poses before a Japanese screen with a parrot and her Boston bull terrier.
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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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Ethel Grandin and William E. Shay in "Across the Plains"

Date: 1912
Description: Ethel Grandin and William E. Shay are sitting on porch steps talking in a scene still from "Across the Plains," also known as "War on the Plains."
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Norma Talmadge in "Going Straight"

Date: 1916
Description: Dressed in her nightgown, Grace Remington (played by Norma Talmadge) is wide-eyed with terror in this scene still from "Going Straight" (Fine Arts 1916).
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Jerry's Piano Girls

Date: 1924
Description: Jerry's Piano Girls, a Keith vaudeville circuit headliner act.
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Kathlyn Williams, Charles Clary, Bessie Eyton, and Harry Lonsdale

Date: 1914
Description: Kathlyn Williams, in a checked winter coat and carrying a suitcase, walks away from two men and a woman on the front steps of a Victorian house in a scene ...
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Publicity Still of Kathlyn Williams

Date: 1914
Description: Kathlyn Williams grins and holds a letter in this three-quarter length publicity still for the 1914 Selig production "A Woman Laughs." She stands behind a ...
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Publicity Still for "After All"

Date: 1912
Description: Florence Lawrence and Owen Moore (as Margie and Rob) are dressed in rough county clothes for the rural Southern drama "After All." They are on the shore of...
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Antonio Moreno and Edith Storey Publicity Still

Date: 1917
Description: Jack Stanton and Faimeh Fitzgerald (played by Antonio Moreno and Edith Storey) flirt through a screen in a publicity still for "Aladdin from Broadway." The...
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Edith Storey and Antonio Moreno Publicity Still

Date: 1917
Description: Faimeh Fitzgerald (played by Edith Storey) cautions Jack Stanton (Antonio Moreno) as he hangs on the rope of a well in a publicity still for "Aladdin from ...
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Alma Reubens and Douglas Fairbanks scene still.

Date: 1917
Description: Juana de Castalar (played by Alma Reubens) has her hand kissed by Blaze Derringer (Douglas Fairbanks) in a scene still for "The Americano." Reubens is cost...

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