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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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Syd Chaplin

Date: 1915
Description: Syd Chaplin at the periscope in a scene still from A Submarine Pirate (Keystone).
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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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"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."
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"The Broken Coin" Production Still

Date: 1915
Description: Group shot of the cast and crew for the Universal serial "The Broken Coin," taken after shooting the final scene. Grace Cunard and Francis Ford are in the ...
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"The Broken Coin" Scene Still

Date: 1915
Description: Kitty Gray (played by Grace Cunard) and Count Frederick (played by Francis Ford) stand in a dungeon and stare off-camera in horror in a scene still from Ep...
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"The Broken Coin" Scene Still

Date: 1915
Description: A stooped old man with a long beard approaches Kitty Gray (played by Grace Cunard) with some large keys in a scene still from Episode 8 "The Prison in the ...
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Hobart Bosworth in "The Scarlet Sin"

Date: 1915
Description: The Reverend Eric Norton (played by Hobart Bosworth) stands preaching next to Jesus (also played by Hobart Bosworth) who has a lamb in his arms. This elabo...
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Hobart Bosworth in "The Scarlet Sin"

Date: 1915
Description: The Reverend Eric Norton (played by Hobart Bosworth) entertains a baby with a teddy bear in a publicity still from "The Scarlet Sin" (Universal, 1915).
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"The Cheat" Movie Still

Date: 1915
Description: A menacing Sessu Hayakawa looms over a terrified Fannie Ward in a scene from the silent film "The Cheat" (Paramount 1915). In the upper right hand corner, ...
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Scene still from "The Broken Coin"

Date: 1915
Description: Kitty Gray (played by Grace Cunard) holds a knife and struggles with a ruffian, while behind them two men fight on the floor and a third escapes out the wi...
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Scene still from "The Broken Coin"

Date: 1915
Description: Grace Cunard (playing Kitty Grey) slips a note to Harry Mann as he examines a book with Francis Ford (playing Count Frederick) in a scene still from the Un...
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"Birth of a Nation" Street Battle

Date: 1915
Description: Street scene from the film "The Birth of a Nation" featuring a battle between soldiers on foot and members of the Ku Klux Klan on horseback. The men on hor...
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Thomas Ince and William S. Hart production still

Date: 1915
Description: Thomas H. Ince gestures to a cameraman who is moving a Bell & Howell camera on its tripod. Over Ince's shoulder is William S. Hart in costume as a minister...
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Joe Ray and Blanche Ring

Date: 1915
Description: Blanche Ring in riding clothes (playing Jessie Gordon) and, probably, Joe Ray (as Ramon Morales) in "The Yankee Girl" (1915).
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Enid Markey and Willard Mack Scene Still

Date: 1915
Description: Enid Markey, in a grass skirt, plays Kalaniweo, the Polynesian chief's daughter. Embracing her is Willard Mack playing David Harmon, a shipwrecked lawyer i...
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Henry Walthall scene still for "The Birth of a Nation"

Date: 1915
Description: In this half length scene still for D.W. Griffith's silent drama "The Birth of a Nation," Henry Walthall stands outdoors costumed for his role as Ben Camer...
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Allan Sears as David Crockett

Date: 1915
Description: Allan "A.D." Sears portrays David Crockett in the 1915 film "Martyrs of the Alamo". He wears fringed buckskin jacket and pants as well as a fur hat while h...

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