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"Sirens of the Sea" Scene Still

Date: 1917
Description: Jack Mulhall and Louise Lovely meet on a beach surrounded by young women wearing bathing costumes composed mostly of seaweed in "Sirens of the Sea" (Univer...
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Irene Castle in Uniform

Date: 1917
Description: The glamorous dancer Irene Castle wearing a World War I "Preparedness Uniform" of her own design. The dress was based on the uniform worn by her husband an...
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Production Still from The Immigrant

Date: 1917
Description: The huge waiter (played by Eric Campbell) glowers at the immigrant (Charlie Chaplin). To the right are Edna Purviance playing another immigrant and Henry B...
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Theda Bara as Cleopatra

Date: 1917
Description: Theda Bara, stands and rests an arm against a pillar with one hand on the back of a chair, in a production still from the 1917 Fox production of Cleopat...
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Art Acord in Cleopatra

Date: 1917
Description: Art Acord as the Egyptian Kephren from the 1917 Fox production of Cleopatra.
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Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, John Noble, and George Hill on the set of Sunshine Alley

Date: 1917
Description: The actors, cameraman, and director discuss the script on location for the silent film "Sunshine Alley" (Goldwyn, 1917). On the right is a Bell & Howell mo...
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Sirens of the Sea Scene Still

Date: 1917
Description: Lorelei (played by Louise Lovely) playfully threatens Julie (Carmel Meyers) with a handful of seaweed as a group of sirens look on in the 1917 Universal pr...
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Richard Barthelmess Publicity Still

Date: 1917
Description: Portrait photograph of Richard Barthelmess. On the back is stamped: Marguerite Clark in "Bab's Burglar" a Parmount Picture. Barthelmess appeared in tha...
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Richard Barthelmess Writing

Date: 1917
Description: A water-damaged, thoroughly-retouched publicity still of Richard Barthelmess sitting at a writing desk. It apparently appeared in "Photoplay Magazine" some...
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Lionel Barrymore

Date: 1917
Description: The actor Lionel Barrymore in a studio portrait by Herman Miskin of New York. His arms are crossed, and he wears a pinstriped suit. A caption pasted on ...
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Publicity Still of Valeska Suratt for the Fox Production The New York Peacock

Date: 1917
Description: Valeska Suratt wears a spider dress and on her head is a webbed hat, proof positive that she is a vamp.
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Valeska Suratt Publicity Photograph

Date: 1917
Description: Valeska Suratt, in a tall dark hat, stares intensely at the camera while holding a vase against her cheek.
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Billie Burke with a Camera Outdoors

Date: 1917
Description: Billie Burke wearing fashionable sportswear (a matching set of bloomers, leggings, and cap) points a Kodak roll film camera at the photographer. She stands...
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Snapshot of J. Searle Dawley, Walter Hiers, and Billie Burke

Date: 1917
Description: Snapshot of J. Searle Dawley, Walter Hiers, and Billie Burke riding on top of a New York bus. Dawley is on the far left. Hiers sits next to Burke. An unkno...
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Full-length Publicity Portrait of Vola Vale

Date: 1917
Description: Silent film actress Vola Vale wearing a polka dot dress and dark straw hat in a portrait by the Hartsook Studio. She inscribed it to the editor and publish...
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Portrait of Vola Vale

Date: 1917
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of Vola Vale, silent film actress who was a leading ingenue for the Balboa Amusement Producing Company.
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Valda Valkyrien in a Scene Still

Date: 1917
Description: Valda Valkyrien wears a flowing white robe, probably in the role of Ashubetis on the Jacksonville, Florida, set of the 1917 Thanhouser production The Im...
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Valda Valkyrien, publicity still with shark

Date: 1917
Description: Valda Valkyrien wears a very smart vertically striped dress under a dark double-breasted jacket. Apparently she has just caught a shark on a Florida beach....
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Irene Castle in Scottish Highland Costume Holding a Dog

Date: 1917
Description: Waist-up portrait of Irene Castle holding one of her small Belgian Griffon dogs.
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Irene Castle and Frank Hall Crane on a film set.

Date: 1917
Description: Irene Castle and her director Frank Crane discussing a script on the set of either Vengence is Mine or Stranded in Arcady, two films they mad...

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