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Fred MacMurray as a Boy

Date: 1915
Description: Fred MacMurray, on the right, as a young boy outdoors in winter with his friend Randall McKinstry.
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"The Cheat"

Date: 1915
Description: A scene still from "The Cheat" (Lasky, 1915) showing Hishuru Tori, played by Sessue Hayakawa, preparing to brand Edith Hardy (Fannie Ward) on the back of h...
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Scene Still from A Girl of Yesterday

Date: 1915
Description: Donald Crisp, aviator Glenn Martin, and Mary Pickford in the 1915 silent comedy A Girl of Yesterday (Famous Players-Lasky, 1915). Martin is wearing ...
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Mae Marsh Publicity Still for "The Birth of a Nation"

Date: 1915
Description: Publicity still from the silent film The Birth of a Nation of Mae Marsh with her hands held to her face.
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Walter Long

Date: 1915
Description: A dramatic publicity still of Walter Long from the film Birth of a Nation. Long played Gus, a "renegrade negro," in blackface.
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Irene Castle

Date: 1915
Description: Waist-up studio portrait of Irene Castle.
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Irene Castle and Vernon Castle

Date: 1915
Description: A lovely studio portrait of the husband and wife dance team, Vernon and Irene Castle. Photograph by Moffett Studio, Chicago.
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Vernon Castle and Irene Castle

Date: 1915
Description: Attractive portrait of the husband-wife dance team, Vernon and Irene Castle standing in a bay window photographed by Ira L. Hill's Studio of New York.
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Jesse Lasky

Date: 1915
Description: Undated studio portrait of Jesse Lasky, pioneer motion picture producer, with his autograph.
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Fannie Ward and Sessue Hayakawa in "The Cheat"

Date: 1915
Description: Dramatic publicity still of Fannie Ward (playing Edith Hardy) and Sessue Hayakawa (as Hishuru Tori) in "The Cheat" (Lasky, 1915). Original caption: "Edith ...
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Lenore Ulric, Publicity Photograph in South Seas Costume

Date: 1915
Description: In this publicity still for the 1915 Triumph film release The Better Woman, Lenore Ulric wears a grass skirt and a quantity of beads.
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Irene Castle and Rastus

Date: 1915
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Irene Castle holding her pet monkey Rastus.
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Clara Kimball Young Holding a Black Cat

Date: 1915
Description: Heavily retouched seated portrait of the silent film star Clara Kimball Young with a black cat on her lap. Original caption: "Clara Kimball Young who w...
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Pearl White and George Vaux Bacon

Date: 1915
Description: Silent film star Pearl White behind the wheel of a 1915 Stutz Bearcat roadster with journalist George Vaux Bacon sitting beside her. The photograph was mad...
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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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"The Goddess" Production Still

Date: 1915
Description: Cameraman Jules Cronjagger and director Ralph Ince shoot a scene with Earle Williams (as Tom Barclay) and Anita Stewart (as Celestia, the Goddess) in the V...
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"The Goddess" Production Still

Date: 1915
Description: Celestia the Goddess (played by Anita Stewart) embraces Tom Barclay (Earle Williams) in a production still for the Vitagraph serial "The Goddess."
Postcard

"The Broken Coin" Promotional Postcard

Date: 1915
Description: Promotional postcard for the 1915 Universal serial "The Broken Coin," featuring cameo photographs of the stars Francis Ford (as Count Frederick) and Grace ...
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"The Broken Coin" Scene Still

Date: 1915
Description: Kitty Gray (played by Grace Cunard) sits forlornly on the straw in a dungeon in the kingdom of Grahaffen in a scene still from Episode 7 "Between Two Fires...
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"The Broken Coin" Publicity Still

Date: 1915
Description: Grace Cunard sits on a bed and frets while a maid looks on in a publicity still for the Universal serial "The Broken Coin" for which Cunard was both writer...

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