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| 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: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Sydney Chaplin (Charlie Chaplin's brother) and a German shepherd dog. Original title: "Syd Chaplin and 'Prince,' a war hero, cited three times for brave... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "For a dog whose breed is alleged to possess great intelligence, this Belgian police dog seems rather indifferent to Priscilla Dean's 'V... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | William Farnum and his dog at his home in Hollywood. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Margarita Fischer, a Harry Pollard Picture Play star, and Pete, an English bulldog. |
| Date: | 06 1919 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Now that the peace has been declared Mary MacLaren feels she can publicly pet dachshunds without being accused of treason." |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Original title: "This is one of the rare snapshots which a photographer gets only once in a peagreen moon. Dorothy Phillips, star of Allen Holubar's Th... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Silent film actress Ruth Roland in riding costume and a velveteen cap playing with a small monkey. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Silent film actress Anita Stewart poses with a golf bag slung over her shoulder and a German shepherd dog. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Silent film actress Anita Stewart holds a live rabbit and wears a dead fox. Original caption: "Anita Stewart with her pet rabbits at her home in Hollyw... |
| Date: | 11 15 1918 |
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| Description: | Long time-silent film actress, most notably for Vitagraph and Metro Pictures, Edith Storey, wearing a fox stole, waves good-bye from the platform at the ba... |
| Date: | 11 15 1918 |
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| Description: | Edith Storey, long-time silent film actress, most notably for Vitagraph and Metro Pictures, wearing a fox stole, waves good-bye from the last car of the Sa... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "It's Blanche Sweet's own dog, but a neighbor's child." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | An unidentified actor dressed as a train porter holds a coin out to Blanche Sweet who is sitting on a trunk with her bulldog in a motion picture scene stil... |
| 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: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Taliaferro sits in an overstuffed chair and holds her pets still for the photographer. Original caption: "Mabel Taliaferro, Metro Star, in the library ... |
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