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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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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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Film Still from "The Girl and the Mummy"

Date: 1916
Description: Film still - interior - actress wrapped as a mummy.
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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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Douglas Fairbanks scene still.

Date: 1917
Description: Douglas Fairbanks, wearing Mexican-style white trousers and shirt, poses in a publicity still for "The Americano." The caption on the reverse of the print ...
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Florence Lawrence

Date: 1910
Description: Silent film actress Florence Lawrence in costume as a gypsy.
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Earle Williams in a publicity still for "Arsene Lupin."

Date: 1917
Description: Earle Williams wears a white tie and tails for the title role in "Arsene Lupin."
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Wallace Reid in a publicty still for a western.

Date: 1912
Description: In this publicity still for the silent western "At Cripple Creek," Wallace Reid is in costume for the role of Joe Mayfield. He wears a bandanna for a tie, ...
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Anita Stewart in a Pierrot costume

Date: 1914
Description: In this scene still for "Back to Broadway" (Vitagraph 1914), Anita Stewart poses as the clown Pierrot and mimes a big kiss.
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Anita Stewart in a Pierrot costume

Date: 1914
Description: In this scene still for "Back to Broadway" (Vitagraph 1914), Anita Stewart poses with her hands in her pockets as the clown Pierrot.

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