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"In a Looking Glass" Movie Still

Date: 1916
Description: The actress Nell Craig holds a revolver on Ernest Maupain while Richard Travers looks on in a scene still from the 1916 Essanay film "In a Looking Glass."
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William Gillette as Sherlock Holmes

Date: 1916
Description: Publicity still of William Gillette in costume as Sherlock Holmes for the 1916 Essanay silent film production "Sherlock Holmes," based upon the play Gillet...
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Production Still with Harry Beaumont, Bryant Washburn and Hazel Daly

Date: 1917
Description: Essanay silent film director Harry Beaumont, wearing tinted pince-nez, watches Bryant Washburn and Hazel Daly act out a scene for "Filling His Own Shoes." ...
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Bryant Washburn, Marguerite Clayton, and Patrick Calhoun

Date: 1916
Description: Jack Thomas (played by Bryant Washburn) is falsely accused by Philip Cole (Patrick Calhoun) as his young ward Elsa Thomas (Marguerite Clayton) watches in a...
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Scene Still with John Cossar, Bryant Washburn, and Anne Leigh

Date: 1915
Description: Bryant Washburn hands money to Anne Leigh while John Cossar, playing a private detective, observes from behind a piano in a scene still from "The Alster Ca...
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Courtroom Scene Still with Ruth Stonehouse

Date: 1916
Description: In this scene still for "Angels Unawares," Ruth Stonehouse plays Freckles, a street waif, who sits forlornly in a courtroom complete with a judge, lawyers,...
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Scene still with Francis X. Bushman for "Ashes of Hope."

Date: 1914
Description: Fred Willard, a theatrical manager played by Francis X. Bushman, is in the dressing room of Zalata, a dancer played by Ruth Stonehouse. Reflected in the mi...
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The Eastern Stock players of the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company

Date: 1911
Description: Group portrait of the Essanay Eastern Stock Company in Chicago, Illinois, 1911: Top row, left to right: Joseph Dailey, F. Doolittle, Inez Callahan, Willia...

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