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| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of Triangle films star Olive Thomas wearing a light-colored suit and holding a Pekinese dog under her arm. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Leonore Ulric as the American Indian girl Alona, "the half-breed daughter of a wealthy white man" (Moving Picture World 8/19/1916, p. 1268). She is in the ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Huntly Gordon (in character as Harleth Crossey) and Irene Castle (as Marcia Crossey) pose outdoors in a full-length publicity photograph for "The Invisible... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | The wealthy playboy Jack Henderson (played by Owen Moore) has accidentally shot Mercy Baxter (Mary Pickford) in the arm and has carried her to her home in ... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Pausing by the door of his mountain cabin, Jim Baxter (played by Ogden Crane) notices that his daughter Mercy (Mary Pickford) and the wealthy visitor from ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Pearl Date (played by Pearl White) threatens Captain Ralph Payne (Ralph Kellard) with a piece of firewood as he struggles with Bertha Bonn (Marie Wayne) fo... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Minnie Penelope Peck (played by Mabel Normand) stands on the doorstep of an impoverished house with a traveling bag in her hand. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Minnie Penelope Peck (played by Mabel Normand) stands in the village street wearing a wooden barrel over the middle of her gingham dress. (Goldwyn 1918) |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Irene Castle in a complicated satin and tulle costume in her role as the cabaret dancer Palma May in the silent film "French Heels" (Holtre 1922). |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Justine Spotiswood (played by Irene Castle wearing a turban with feathers) and Cosmo Spotiswood (William P. Carleton) gaze into each others eyes in a scene... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Romeo (played by Harry Hilliard), on his knees, clasps Juliet's (Theda Bara) hand in a romantic scene still in the Fox production "Romeo and Juliet" (Fox 1... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Grace Cunard sits on a bed and frets while a maid looks on in a publicity still for the Universal serial "The Broken Coin" for which Cunard was both writer... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Group shot of the cast and crew for the Universal serial "The Broken Coin," taken after shooting the final scene. Grace Cunard and Francis Ford are in the ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Publicity still for the Artcraft movie "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm," featuring Mary Pickford in the title role, in costume, reading the book by Kate Dougla... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Scene still from the American Film Co. silent film "The Intrusion of Isabel," featuring Alan Forrest (playing Jack Craig) and Mary Miles Minter (playing Is... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Murphy the cop (played by Fred Mace) kneels as he is tormented by his wife (Dot Farley) who chokes him with one hand and raps him on the head with the othe... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Original caption on reverse of print reads: "Principals in Corsican drama, 'A Daughter of Caliente.' Douglas Gerrard, producer and actor and his leading l... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders studio portrait of Florence Lawrence wearing a hat. She wears a cameo and looks directly at the camera. |
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| Description: | Photograph of a poster for the 1928 film Aching Youth starring Charley Chase. Chase kneels next to a seated woman and holds a microphone to her ches... |
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