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Rudolph Valentino with Voisin Car

Date: 1923
Description: Rudolph Valentino and his wife Natacha Rambova pose with their Voisin automobile.
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Gaston Glass in his New Car

Date: 1922
Description: French-born silent film actor Gaston Glass at the wheel of a touring car with a spare tire mounted on the running board. Glass later became an assistant di...
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Cullen Landis in a Racing Car

Date: 1921
Description: Goldwyn silent film star Cullen Landis behind the wheel of a racing car with 1921 California license plates. Original caption: "Here's Cullen Landis in...
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Albert E. Smith, Antonio Moreno, and a Small Racing Car

Date: 1920
Description: Albert E. Smith, one of the founders of the Vitagraph motion picture company, stands with a cigar in his mouth looking down at the silent film star Antonio...
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Antonio Moreno in a Racing Car

Date: 1920
Description: Vitagraph silent film star Antonio Moreno sits grinning beind the wheel of a very small racing car in a photograph heavily retouched for print reproduction...
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Mary Miles Minter in an Automobile

Date: 1921
Description: Publicity still of silent film star Mary Miles Minter waves from behind the wheel of her Packard Twin-Six open touring car. Original caption: "Mary Mil...
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Houdini in Chains

Date: 1922
Description: Harry Houdini, the well-known escape artist, was born in Budapest, Hungary and raised in Appleton, Wisconsin. At the time of his immigration his name was s...
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Theodore Roberts, Mary MacLaren, and Wallace Reid in "Across the Continent"

Date: 1922
Description: John Dent (played by Theodore Roberts) greets Louise Fowler (Mary MacLaren) and his son Jimmy Dent (Wallace Reid) after they have won a transcontinental au...
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"Affinities" Scene Still

Date: 1922
Description: Still from the 1922 Hodkinson film "Affinities," featuring Pietro Sosso (as Professor Savage), John Bowers (as Day Illington), and Colleen Moore (as Fanny ...

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