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| Date: | 07 21 1916 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Mary MacLaren, Bluebird Photoplays star, in a formal dress leaning on a chair. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Actress Florence Lawrence seated at the vanity mirror in her dressing room wearing a white satin dressing gown and night cap. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Publicity portrait of Valda Valkyrien, known as "The Movie Star of Denmark." |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Gloria Swanson and Bobby Vernon in a scene from "Haystacks and Steeples". |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Backlit publicity still of Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, and Dorothy Gish. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A water-damaged, thoroughly-retouched publicity still of Richard Barthelmess sitting at a writing desk. It apparently appeared in "Photoplay Magazine" some... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Director D.W. Griffith appears to be adjusting actor Robert Harron's moustache. Original caption: "Making up Bobbie." |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Billie Burke, Florenz Ziegfeld, and Kid Broad outside having a conversation. Burke has on athletic wear, bloomers and a sweater. This picture may have been... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | In this publicity still for the 1915 Triumph film release The Better Woman, Lenore Ulric wears a grass skirt and a quantity of beads. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Rudolph Valentino stands with his hands on his hips and wears a white turban in a publicity still from The Son of the Sheik (UA, 1926). |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of two couples, Rudolph Valentino with Pola Negri, and Mae Murray with Prince David Mdivani, apparently taken the day of Murray and Md... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Margarita Fischer, a Harry Pollard Picture Play star, and Pete, an English bulldog. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A snapshot of the actress Norma Talmadge wearing a bathing suit. She is sitting on a table behind a rat terrier that is sitting up on its haunches. She was... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | The actress Norma Talmadge is posed outdoors in an athletic outfit, black bloomers with white tassels, holding her Pomeranian dog "Dinky." Next to her is h... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Norma Talmadge sits on a branch of an oak tree with her Pomeranian "Dinky." Talmadge wears black bloomers with white tassels and a black head scarf. |
| 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: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Mabel Trunnelle, player in Edison Company silent films from 1909, is dressed in a white sailor's suit and straw hat and holds a young goat. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | The silent film actress Clara Kimball Young, dressed for a drive in a military-styled coat with patch pockets and a dark straw hat, stands beside a car wit... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Heavily retouched seated portrait of the silent film star Clara Kimball Young with a black cat on her lap. Original caption: "Clara Kimball Young who w... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Silent film star Robert Warwick in heavy fur coat and hat leaning over the engine of a Stutz Bearcat roadster. Original caption: "D--n that carburetor.... |
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