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| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | An actor dressed as an army officer, holding a saber, for the performance of "Black Hawk, or Lily of the Prairie," a drama written by Mary Elizabeth Mears ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | In dishabille, Paula Figueroa (played by Lenore Ulric) crouches on a bed in terror as Emiliano Pacheco (Howard Davies) and Bruce McLean (Forrest Stanley) f... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Olivia de Havilland (playing Maid Marian) and Errol Flynn (Robin Hood) in a hand-colored publicity still from director Michael Curtiz's film "The Adventure... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | King Richard the Lionhearted gives Maid Marian and Robin Hood permission to marry in one of the last scenes from Michael Curtiz's 1938 "The Adventures of R... |
| Date: | 09 20 1915 |
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| Description: | Grace Cunard (as Kitty Gray, holding a sword), and Francis Ford (as Count Frederick) pose in a publicity still for Episode 14 "On the Battle Field" of the ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | William E. Shay has pulled a pistol on another actor in western dress as Ethel Grandin watches, on her knees with hands clasped in a scene still from "Acro... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| 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." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Kitty Gray (played by Grace Cunard) holds a knife and struggles with a ruffian, while behind them two men fight on the floor and a third escapes out the wi... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | A crowd is gathered in a courtroom in this scene still from the Thanhouser serial "Zudora." The blonde man on the far left is the actor N.Z. Wood. Zudora (... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Zudora (played by Marguerite Snow) sits at a table while John Storm (Harry Benham) practices with a semi-automatic pistol in a candlelit basement in a scen... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | In a candlelit basement, John Storm (played by Harry Benham) loads bullets into a pistol magazine in a scene still for the Thanhouser serial "Zudora." The ... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Anatol Spencer (played by Wallace Reid) stands in a doorway with his wife Vivian (Gloria Swanson) in this scene still from Cecil B. DeMille's 1921 producti... |
| Date: | 04 23 1986 |
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| Description: | This image was captured during the re-enactment of a crime that took place at a convenience store on Tuesday, April 22nd, 1986. The killing of Andrew N. Ne... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Robert Ryan and Phillip Pine are seen in a still from the film "Men in War." Exhausted and with his eyes closed, Ryan rests his head against a Vickers mach... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Sitting on a table in a filthy cellar, Prudence Thorne (played by Billie Burke) compares knives with a Chinaman as four other thugs watch in a scene still ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Harrison (played by Mary Maurice) solemnly presents the family sword to her son John Harrison (Charles Richman, on the left) in a scene still for the ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | In this scene still for the silent drama "The Beggar Prince, the Prince of the Island of Desire (played by Sessue Hayakawa) and Olala (Beatrice LaPlante) w... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Seated around a table in a dining room, Mary Thurman offers a spoonful of peas to Ford Sterling (at right, dressed as a dandy) while Chester Conklin begs f... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | In the forest, Stella Benton (played by Kathlyn Williams in a striped skirt and white blouse) talks to Jack Fyfe (played by Wallace Reid in outdoors clothe... |
| Date: | 03 1960 |
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| Description: | Madison men who play naval officers in the play "South Pacific" learn about naval weapons by visiting the Naval Reserve Officers Training corps (NROTC) hea... |
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