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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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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."
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"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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"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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The Arrest of the Yeggmen from "Above Par"

Date: 1915
Description: Safecrackers (yeggmen) hired by Sterling, a corrupt Wall Street broker, are caught in the act by the newspaper reporter Dick Carson (played by W. E. Lawren...
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W.E. Lawrence and Billie West in "Above Par"

Date: 1915
Description: In a scene still from the one-reel silent film "Above Par," actors W.E. Lawrence and Billie West are curled up on a couch together reading a book. Lawrence...
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Final Scene from "Above Par"

Date: 1915
Description: Stirling, the corrupt Wall Street broker, is confronted by Mr. Berry (played by W. H. Brown in a top hat) in the climax of the 1915 Reliance one-reel silen...

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