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| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Lithograph poster for Augustin Daly's 1867 play Under the Gaslight, depicting Snorkey the one-armed Civil War veteran tied to the railroad tracks, w... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of future actor Fred MacMurray at age 3, posed with his mother Maleta Martin MacMurray. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Charlie Chaplin. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Backlit publicity still of Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, and Dorothy Gish. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Richard Barthelmess, the future actor, is about 12-years-old in this studio portrait. He is dressed as a soldier, probably one of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough R... |
| 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: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Director D.W. Griffith appears to be adjusting actor Robert Harron's moustache. Original caption: "Making up Bobbie." |
| Date: | 05 07 1923 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "D.W. Griffith rehearses Mae Marsh and Ivor Novello for scene in his forthcoming production of The White Rose in spot near Miami,... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Gummo (Milton Marx) on the left and on the right Groucho (Julius Henry Marx) holding a rat terrier dog. Caption from Paramount Pictures, Inc.: "THE BOY... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Ivor Novello (Griffith) who appeared as Ivor with Mm. Rejane in Gypsy Passion performed in France by Louis Mercanton under the t... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Undated color lithograph of the Vitagraph star John Bunny mounted on card stock. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Billie Burke, Florenz Ziegfeld, and Kid Broad outside having a conversation. Burke has on athletic wear, bloomers and a sweater. This picture may have been... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 02 1919 |
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| Description: | Four of the founders of United Artists, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and D.W. Griffith. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Rudolph Valentino stands with his hands on his hips and wears a white turban in a publicity still from The Son of the Sheik (UA, 1926). |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of two couples, Rudolph Valentino with Pola Negri, and Mae Murray with Prince David Mdivani, apparently taken the day of Murray and Md... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Sydney Chaplin (Charlie Chaplin's brother) and a German shepherd dog. Original title: "Syd Chaplin and 'Prince,' a war hero, cited three times for brave... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | William Farnum and his dog at his home in Hollywood. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | An unidentified actor dressed as a train porter holds a coin out to Blanche Sweet who is sitting on a trunk with her bulldog in a motion picture scene stil... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Vitagraph silent film star Earle Williams wags his finger at a collie. |
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