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Clara Kimball Young, an Automobile, and a Chow Dog

Date: 1918
Description: The silent film actress Clara Kimball Young, dressed for a drive in a military-styled coat with patch pockets and a dark straw hat, stands beside a car wit...
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Douglas Fairbanks and a Stutz Bearcat Automobile

Date: 1918
Description: Silent film star Douglas Fairbanks stands in the cockpit of a Stutz Bearcat roadster.
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Florence Lawrence in a Lozier Automobile

Date: 1912
Description: A publicity still of Victor Film Company silent film star Florence Lawrence driving a Lozier open touring car with 1912 Pennsylvania license plates.
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Norman Kerry in a Roadster

Date: 09 1918
Description: Silent film actor Norman Kerry leaning out the side of a roadster automobile. Original caption: "Norman Kerry, looking for tire trouble. He generally f...
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Mack Sennett Bathing Beauties Posed on an Automobile

Date: 02 1919
Description: Six Mack Sennett bathing beauties wave as they sit on a Willys Six seven-seat touring car. Three of the actresses are tentatively identified as Marie Prevo...
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Mary Miles Minter and James Kirkwood

Date: 08 16 1916
Description: The fifteen-year-old silent film actress Mary Miles Minter stands beside a two-seat roadster automobile looking at the director James Kirkwood sitting at t...
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Vivian Martin in a Cadillac Automobile

Date: 1916
Description: Silent film actress Vivian Martin sits behind the wheel of what appears to be a 1916 Cadillac two-door coupe.
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Pearl White and George Vaux Bacon

Date: 1915
Description: Silent film star Pearl White behind the wheel of a 1915 Stutz Bearcat roadster with journalist George Vaux Bacon sitting beside her. The photograph was mad...
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Robert Warwick and a Stutz Bearcat Automobile

Date: 1916
Description: Silent film star Robert Warwick in heavy fur coat and hat leaning over the engine of a Stutz Bearcat roadster. Original caption: "D--n that carburetor....
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Robert Warwick and a Stutz Bearcat Automobile

Date: 1916
Description: Silent film star Robert Warwick in heavy fur coat and hat sits in the driver's seat of a Stutz Bearcat roadster for a publicity photograph. Original cap...
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Niles Welch Working on a Hudson Automobile

Date: 09 1918
Description: Silent film actor Niles Welch on the ground underneath the front of a 1918 Hudson Super Six touring limousine. Apparently he is using a carpenter's brace d...
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Niles Welch Sawing a Hudson Automobile

Date: 09 1918
Description: Silent film actor Niles Welch is apparently using a wood saw on the engine of a 1918 Hudson Super Six touring limousine. Other carpenter's tools--a plane a...
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Niles Welch and a Hudson Automobile

Date: 1918
Description: Silent film actor Niles Welch is stepping up onto the running board of a 1918 Hudson Super Six touring limousine. He wears a casual suit with a belted coat...
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Billie West and W.H. Brown in "Above Par"

Date: 1915
Description: The Wall Street broker Mr. Berry (played by W.H. Brown) and his daughter (Billie West, wearing a hat with a white veil) sit in the back of a chauffeured op...
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"Taxi" Scene Still

Date: 1919
Description: Night-time scene still from the Triangle silent film "Taxi," featuring Taylor Holmes (playing Robert Hervey Randolph) leaning on his taxi.
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Corinne Griffith in "The Adventure Shop"

Date: 1919
Description: The actress Corinne Griffith posing with an English bulldog and an open one seat runabout automobile in a publicity still for the silent film "The Adventur...
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Scene Still from "Yvonne from Paris"

Date: 1919
Description: Yvonne Halbert (played by Mary Miles Minter) and Lawrence Bartlett (Alan Forrest) make pains to ignore each other as they sit side-by-side in the back of a...
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Marguerite Clark scene still with automobile.

Date: 1917
Description: Bab Archibald (played by Marguerite Clark) washes a very muddy automobile that appears to be an Overland open touring car in this scene still for "Bab's Bu...
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Marguerite Clark scene still washing an automobile.

Date: 1917
Description: Bab Archibald (played by Marguerite Clark) washes a very muddy automobile that appears to be an Overland open touring car in this scene still for "Bab's Bu...
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Scene still with Richard Barthelmess and Marguerite Clark.

Date: 1917
Description: Tommy Gray (played by Richard Barthelmess) has his ring returned by Bab Archibald (Marguerite Clark) in a scene still for "Bab's Burglar." Barthelmess wear...

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