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| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A water-damaged, thoroughly-retouched publicity still of Richard Barthelmess sitting at a writing desk. It apparently appeared in "Photoplay Magazine" some... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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.... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Bob Hildreth (a sculptor played by Frank Mayo) has designs on his student Lois Page (played by Ethel Clayton) in this scene still from "Easy Money." |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Irene Castle in pajamas and sleeping cap enjoying a cantaloupe as part of a posed breakfast in bed with her pet monkey Rastus. This photograph was used to ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Irene Castle in a gauzy tulle and satin dress in a full-length pose in a publicity photograph for the silent film "Patria" (International 1917). |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Movie still from the Artcraft movie "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm," featuring Mary Pickford (playing the title role) goofing off with a parasol. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Publicity still for the Artcraft movie "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm," featuring Mary Pickford in the title role, in costume, reading the book by Kate Dougla... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Max Sennett Studios. There are many open-roofed studios with cloth diffusers. A huge sign reads: "Paramount-Comedies-Mack Sennett-Come... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Mack Sennett, in a dark suit, and two technicians stand by a Prestwich camera on the set of an unidentified Middle Eastern themed Keystone Comedy. A belly ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | From left to right: Charlotte Shelby (mother of Mary Miles Minter), Mrs. E.M. Miles (mother of Charlotte Shelby), and Mary Miles Minter, the silent film st... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Essanay silent film star Bryant Washburn in U.S. Army sergeant's uniform sits on the grass with his little son Bryant Washburn, Jr., and his wife, the actr... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | The six year old child actor Francis Carpenter, as Aladdin, holds the lamp and looks up in a scene still from the 1917 William Fox production "Aladdin and ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Jack Stanton and Faimeh Fitzgerald (played by Antonio Moreno and Edith Storey) flirt through a screen in a publicity still for "Aladdin from Broadway." The... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Faimeh Fitzgerald (played by Edith Storey) cautions Jack Stanton (Antonio Moreno) as he hangs on the rope of a well in a publicity still for "Aladdin from ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Amad (played by Otto Lederer in beard and turban) watches as his wife Faimeh (Edith Storey) threatens to do herself harm with a dagger in a scene still for... |
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