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Anita Loos

Date: 1918
Description: The writer Anita Loos and the director John Emerson looking over a script on a film set. Emerson has a pince-nez on a cord and sits in a director's chair. ...
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Richard Barthelmess as a Boy

Date: 1906
Description: Richard Barthelmess, the future actor, is about 12-years-old in this studio portrait. He is dressed as a soldier, probably one of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough R...
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D. W. Griffith

Date: 1916
Description: Studio portrait of director D. W. Griffith wearing a straw boater. Original caption: "David W. Griffith, Reliance-Majestic."
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D. W. Griffith

Date: 1918
Description: Studio portrait of the director D. W. Griffith wearing an overcoat and homburg hat.
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Publicity Still of Valeska Suratt

Date: 1916
Description: Publicity still of Valeska Suratt wearing a hat composed mostly of wires, c. 1916. A stamp on the back of the print reads: William Fox presents VALESKA...
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Publicity Photograph of Valeska Suratt

Date: 1907
Description: Valeska Suratt's early fame was for her elaborate costumes, wasp waist, ample bosom and hips. She appeared in the 1906 musical The Belle of Mayfair ...
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Valeska Suratt Publicity Photograph

Date: 1916
Description: Publicity photograph by Gerald Carpenter of Los Angeles. Three-quarter length portrait of Valeska Suratt wearing a white fur suit, hat, and muffler as she ...
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Valeska Suratt

Date: 1916
Description: Full-length publicity portrait of Valeska Suratt wearing a white fur suit, hat, and muffler as she sits on a black bear rug.
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Publicity Still of Valeska Suratt for the Fox Production The New York Peacock

Date: 1917
Description: Valeska Suratt wears a spider dress and on her head is a webbed hat, proof positive that she is a vamp.
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Valeska Suratt Publicity Photograph

Date: 1917
Description: Valeska Suratt, in a tall dark hat, stares intensely at the camera while holding a vase against her cheek.
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Valeska Suratt Publicity Photograph

Date: 1906
Description: An early waist-up publicity portrait of Valeska Suratt sitting on a chair. She wears an intricate lace dress and a large hat covered with feathers.
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Valeska Suratt

Date: 1906
Description: An early full-length publicity portrait of Valeska Suratt in an interesting pose: arms straight out, palms down, as if she were warming by a fire. She wear...
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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...
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Valeska Surrat

Date: 1916
Description: Full-length publicity photograph of Valeska Surrat. Valeska Surrat, standing beside a mirror, wears a crinoline dress decorated with artificial grapes. ...
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Portrait of Billie Burke

Date: 1909
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of Billie Burke distributed as publicity for the 1909 Broadway comedy Love Watches. This Sarony Studio portrait is a s...
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Full-Length Portrait of Billie Burke

Date: 1916
Description: Portrait of Billie Burke distributed as publicity for the 1916 Kleine film Gloria's Romance. Her costume is a modified gaucho outfit, with hat, cape...
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Portrait of a young Billie Burke

Date: 1903
Description: Head and shoulders publicity portrait of Billie Burke resting her cheek on her hand. She wears long white gloves and a large lacy white hat. Published as a...
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Lenore Ulrich—Morosco Star

Date: 1916
Description: Full-length publicity portrait of Lenore Ulric wearing fashionable cool weather clothes and clutching an umbrella with an extremely long handle.
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Full-length Publicity Portrait of Vola Vale

Date: 1917
Description: Silent film actress Vola Vale wearing a polka dot dress and dark straw hat in a portrait by the Hartsook Studio. She inscribed it to the editor and publish...
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Rudolph Valentino, Publicity Still for The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Date: 1921
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Rudolph Valentino as Julio Desnoyers in the 1921 Metro Pictures production The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. He is...

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