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Ziegfield Follies

Date: 1912
Description: Bert Williams (right) and Leon Errol (left) are a cabbie and his fare from the 1912 Ziegfield Follies. The cab is drawn by a rumpled pantomime horse. Behin...
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Irene Castle

Date: 1912
Description: Publicity portrait of the dancer Irene Castle wearing the lace Dutch cap Vernon bought her in Brussels in 1912.
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Bert Williams

Date: 1912
Description: Caricature of Bert Williams, probably drawn by Al Frueh, c. 1912.
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Scene Still with William Shea, John Bunny, Wallace Reid, Marshall P. Wilder, and Leah Baird

Date: 1912
Description: Heavily retouched scene still from the 1912 Vitagraph production Chumps. Left to right: William Shea, John Bunny, Wallace Reid, Marshall P. Wilder, ...
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Marshall Neilan and Ruth Roland

Date: 1912
Description: Scene still with Marshall Neilan, in white shirt, and Ruth Roland in a room crowded with police officers from one of the many silent films they made for Ka...
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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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Studio Portrait of Elsie Janis

Date: 1912
Description: Original caption: "Elsie Janis who with Montgomery and Stone will open in the new musical comedy 'The Lady of the Slipper'..."
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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 "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...
Poster

Poster for "Don't Lie to Your Wife"

Date: 1912
Description: Color lithograph. The top banner reads: "C.S. Primrose presents the musical comedy farce 'Don't Lie to Your Wife'." Below this, upper right, is the author'...
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Poster for "Rollicking Shannon"

Date: 1912
Description: Color lithograph poster for "Rollicking Shannon." Across the top the caption reads “John O’Donnell, The Gifted Actor and Tenor”/Management Al. McLean." The...
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William Clifford and Ethel Grandin in "Across the Plains"

Date: 1912
Description: William Clifford and Ethel Grandin in 1860s or 1870s period costume. They are apparently being guarded by two U.S. Army soldiers in this scene still for "A...
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Ethel Grandin and Others in "Across the Plains"

Date: 1912
Description: Three or more pioneer women and an older man in buckskin look in horror at a threat--indians?--that is beyond the frame of the photograph in this scene sti...
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Ethel Grandin and Francis Ford in "Across the Plains"

Date: 1912
Description: In the foreground Ethel Grandin and Francis Ford embrace at the foot of a grave. Behind them are three covered wagons, numerous men and women on horseback,...
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Ethel Grandin, J. Barney Sherry, and Others in "Across the Plains"

Date: 1912
Description: In the left foreground Ethel Grandin is comforted by a U.S. Army cavalry officer. Behind them other officers and a woman standing by a Wells Fargo stagecoa...
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Ray Myers and Ethel Grandin in "Across the Plains"

Date: 1912
Description: Ray Myers courts Ethel Grandin as they sit on a boulder in a scene still from "Across the Plains," also known as "War on the Plains." Behind them is a smal...
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Ethel Grandin, Red Mack, and Charlie Westin in "Across the Plains"

Date: 1912
Description: A gold prospector with pick, canteen, and pan gets an emotional greeting or goodbye from Ethel Grandin in this scene still from "Across the Plains," also k...
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William E. Shay and Ethel Grandin in "Across the Plains"

Date: 1912
Description: William E. Shay has pulled a pistol on another actor in western dress as Ethel Grandin watches, on her knees with hands clasped in a scene still from "Acro...
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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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Scene Still of Florence Lawrence and Owen Moore in "The Advent of Jane"

Date: 1912
Description: Dr. Jane Bixby (played by Florence Lawrence), wearing a white duster and with her medical bag by her feet, wraps a bandage around a child's ankle on the po...

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