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| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Robbers, guns drawn, escort the engineer from the locomotive in a scene from The Great Train Robbery. |
| Date: | 09 03 1955 |
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| Description: | Mamie Till Bradley, the mother of Emmett Till, weeps during his funeral. The 14-year-old Till was murdered while visiting relatives in Mississippi for alle... |
| Date: | 05 05 1949 |
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| Description: | Several days before the Berlin Blockade was to be lifted, Russian authorities permitted this West Berlin couple to purchase potatoes in the eastern sector.... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Jimmy Cagney as Danny Kean in a scene still from "Picture Snatcher" (WB, 1933). |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | The robber Jimmy Briggs (played by Eugene Pallette) menaces Grace Remington (Norma Talmadege) in her bedroom in this scene still from the silent feature fi... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | The robber Jimmy Briggs (played by Eugene Pallette) is stifling the cries of Grace Remington (Norma Talmadege) in this scene still from the silent feature ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Mr. Pepper (played by Charles Lee) lies dead on the floor as his daughter Jane (Irene Hunt) kneels beside him in shock. In the background sitting by a smal... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Mr. Pepper (played by Charles Lee) lies dead upon the floor while seven other characters stand about the room in attitudes of shock and bewilderment. On th... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Mr. Pepper's butler (played by Philip Gastrock) describes how his master was murdered to a group including Jane Pepper (Irene Hunt), her brother (Jack Conw... |
| 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: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Still from the 1917 Pathé movie "Sylvia of the Secret Service," featuring Irene Castle (playing Sylvia Carroll), surprising a safecracker. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Still from the 1917 Pathé movie "Sylvia of the Secret Service," featuring Irene Castle (playing Sylvia Carroll), captured by the villains. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Held against her will on a desolate island, Nellie Nolan (played by Edith Taliaferro) is forced to write her own kidnapping note by Spagnoli (Al Ernest Gar... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Actor Harry Benham points accusingly at a ruffian on the floor as two police officers subdue two criminals in a scene still from the Thanhouser serial "Zud... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Actor Harry Benham covers two ruffians with two pistols as Marguerite Snow ministers to an insensible young man on the floor in a scene still from the Than... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Ann Anderson (played by Margarita Fischer) is accosted by two ruffians in an outdoor scene still from the 1918 Mutual production "Ann's Finish." The man in... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | The leader of a band of Mexican desperadoes, Steve Denton (played by William S. Hart), has his heart softened by the innocent young Mary Beth Garth (Bessie... |
| 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: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Bare-fisted Gallagher (played by William Desmond) stands in full Western costume (cowboy hat, plaid shirt, bandana neckerchief, charro chaps, leather wrist... |
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| Description: | Actor Neville Brand, director Don Siegel, and another actor joke around on the set of the film "Riot in Cell Block 11." Brand holds Siegel as the other act... |
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