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Agnes Moorehead as a Child

Date: 1903
Description: Agnes Moorehead is shown at about 4 years of age. She wears a white dress stands beside a flowering bush.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The Avatar

Date: 08 04 1967
Description: Cover of "The Avatar," an underground newspaper, featuring a charcoal drawing of a woman, facing away, with a pack over her shoulder and a white and red fl...
Photograph

Publicity Photograph of Valeska Suratt

Date: 09 30 1918
Description: Quarter-length publicity photograph of Valeska Suratt in a dark velvet dress and hat. She holds a calla lilly and wears pearl rings. The print carries a...
Photograph

Publicity Portait of Louise Vale

Date: 1918
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Louise Vale holding roses, by the White Studio of New York. She was a silent film actress who died from the Spanish Flu in M...
Photograph

Rudolph Valentino and Dorothy Phillips, Scene Still

Date: 1920
Description: Rudolph Valentino, playing Juliantino Visconti, interrupts Dorothy Phillips, as Aurora Meredith, as she is putting a bouquet of roses in a vase, in the 192...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Elsie Janis

Date: 1912
Description: Original caption: "Elsie Janis who with Montgomery and Stone will open in the new musical comedy 'The Lady of the Slipper'..."
Photograph

Dorothy Jardon in "The Merry-Go-Round"

Date: 1908
Description: Dorothy Jardon in a White Studio publicity photograph for her first Broadway appearance, the musical comedy "The Merry-Go-Round," which opened at the Circl...
Drawing

"Black Orchid"

Date: 1958
Description: Edith Head costume sketch for Sophia Loren's character Rose Bianco in the film "Black Orchid." The costume is a denim work apron worn over a skirt and blou...
Photograph

Clara Kimball Young and Pauline Maddern Kimball

Date: 1918
Description: Pauline Maddern Kimball, holding a basket of flowers, shows a bouquet to her daughter, the silent film star Clara Kimball Young who is on a chaise lounge w...
Photograph

Marguerite Clark and Jack Mulhall Publicity Still

Date: 1920
Description: In this publicity still for "All of a Sudden Peggy," Marguerite Clark and Jack Mulhall are talking outdoors in a rose garden. Both are dressed very fashion...
Photograph

Harold Lockwood and May Allison amid daisies, scene still

Date: 1916
Description: Dressed for farming, John Tremaine, Jr., played by Harold Lockwood, sits in a field of daisies with Isobel Malvern (May Allison) in a scene still for the s...
Photograph

Lunt and Fontanne in the Garden

Date: 1942
Description: View down rows of vegetable garden at Ten Chimneys of Lynn Fontanne standing on the right and Alfred Lunt standing and waving his hat from a patch of corn....
Poster

"Šelma na svobodě" (The Tiger Attacks) Film Poster

Date: 1966
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster for the French film "Le fauve est lâché." Collage image of a black tiger with its mouth open. The tiger wears a tie and has a f...
Poster

"Čtyři pravdy" (Three Fables of Love) Film Poster

Date: 1965
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster for the French film "Les quatres vérités." Collage image of a black cat with green eyes. The cat is wearing a lace collar with ...
Poster

"Obraz lāsky" (Image of Love) Film Poster

Date: 1966
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster for the English film "Image of Love." Mona Lisa wears a pink wig, and a flower, lips, small hearts and a chart are pasted on to...
Poster

"Růžový Panther" (The Pink Panther) Film Poster

Date: 1966
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster for the American film. Photographic image of a smiling woman with an illustrated pink outfit in the form of a sphinx. She holds...
Photograph

Buster Keaton Wedding

Date: 05 21 1921
Description: Norma, Natalie, and Constance Talmadge standing outdoors with Buster Keaton on the day he married Natalie. Natalie and Constance are both holding big bouqu...
Photograph

Buster Keaton

Date: 
Description: Publicity photograph of Buster Keaton. He is standing in front of a backdrop holding a flower up in one hand, with his other hand resting on his leg.
Photograph

Barbara Payton

Date: 1949
Description: Barbara Payton posing outdoors for a publicity portrait for the film "Trapped." She is standing against a tree wearing a swimsuit. A swimming pool is below...
Photograph

In the Public Eye

Date: 04 09 1970
Description: Two women on the left are sitting at tables and talking into telephones. On the right are large show windows, and a bus and passers-by are visible through ...

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