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George Fawcett and Louise Brownell in a film still from "The Corner"

Date: 1916
Description: The millionaire David Waltham and his wife (played by George Fawcett and Louise Brownell) are being served at a table by their butler while a maid arranges...
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George Fawcett in a scene still from "The Corner"

Date: 1916
Description: The millionaire David Waltham (played by George Fawcett) sits at his desk reading a book, smoking, a cigar, and scowling in a scene still for the 1916 dram...
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Film Still with George Fawcett and other actors in "The Corner"

Date: 1916
Description: The millionaire David Waltham (played by George Fawcett, holding a cigar and scowling) is in a group of businessmen in an office for a scene still for the ...
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Willard Mack and Clara Williams scene still from "The Corner"

Date: 1916
Description: The unemployed worker John Adams (played by Willard Mack) and his wife (Clara Williams) are faced with bills they cannot pay in a scene still for the silen...
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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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Publicity Still of George Beban

Date: 1915
Description: George Beban is in character as Pietro Massena, the Italian ditch digger in "The Alien." Beban wrote and acted in the stage version which was titled "The S...
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Crowded Courtroom Scene Still from "Back of the Man"

Date: 1917
Description: Every person in the crowded courtroom is standing in this scene still for the silent drama "Back of the Man." The center of attention is a man with a moust...
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Frank Keenan in a Scene Still for "The Bride of Hate"

Date: 1917
Description: Louisiana doctor Dudley Duprez, played by Frank Keenan, makes a fist and glares angrily in a scene still for "The Bride of Hate," a drama of miscegenation ...
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Scene still with Bessie Barriscale, Arthur Shirley, and six children

Date: 1916
Description: In a scene still for "Bawbs o' Blue Ridge," Barbara "Bawbs" Colby (played by Bessie Barriscale) entertains six African-American children among the trees of...
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Scene still with Arthur Shirley and Bessie Barriscale.

Date: 1916
Description: In a scene still for "Bawbs o' Blue Ridge," Ralph Gunter (played by Arthur Shirley) talks to Barbara "Bawbs" Colby (Bessie Barriscale) in a forest of the A...
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Henry Woodruff, Rhea Mitchell, and Tsuru Aoki in a scene still

Date: 1916
Description: In this scene still for the silent drama "The Beckoning Flame," the Indian colonial administrator Harry Dickson (played by Henry Woodruff) and his English ...
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Tsuru Aoki in a scene still

Date: 1916
Description: The Indian princess Janira (played by Japanese actress Tsuru Aoki) is seated on a raised platform on the left. In front of her are four dancing girls and a...
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H .B. Warner in a closeup scene still

Date: 1916
Description: In the title role for the silent drama "The Beggar of Cawnpore," the actor H. B. Warner poses in character as Dr. Robert Lowndes, a British army doctor in ...
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H. B. Warner in a scene still

Date: 1916
Description: In a scene still for the silent drama "The Beggar of Crawnpore," H. B. Warner poses in character as Dr. Robert Lowndes, a British army doctor in India redu...
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H. B. Warner in a scene still

Date: 1916
Description: In a scene still for the silent drama "The Beggar of Crawnpore," H. B. Warner poses in character as Dr. Robert Lowndes, a British army doctor in India. He ...
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H. B. Warner and two other actors in a scene still

Date: 1916
Description: In a scene still for the silent drama "The Beggar of Crawnpore," H. B. Warner poses in character as Dr. Robert Lowndes, a British army doctor in India. He ...

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