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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | On the set of "The Road to Divorce" (Universal, 1920). Original caption: "Mr. Harry Nuttall, of England, member of the British Parliament from Manchest... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | The actors, cameraman, and director discuss the script on location for the silent film "Sunshine Alley" (Goldwyn, 1917). On the right is a Bell & Howell mo... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | In dishabille, Paula Figueroa (played by Lenore Ulric) crouches on a bed in terror as Emiliano Pacheco (Howard Davies) and Bruce McLean (Forrest Stanley) f... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Mercy Baxter (played by Mary Pickford) is a mountain girl who has fallen in love with Jack Henderson, a wealthy boy from the city. After his father tells h... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Pearl White stands in front of a painted studio background, sword in hand, wearing the female version of a U.S. Army cavalry uniform. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | William E. Shay has pulled a pistol on another actor in western dress as Ethel Grandin watches, on her knees with hands clasped in a scene still from "Acro... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Photograph of the winter studios of the Kalem Company showing outbuildings on the grounds of the Roseland Hotel on the St. Johns River near Jacksonville, F... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Lila Lee (as Annette Ainsworth) confronts the camera with a loaded revolver in a scene still from the 1919 Famous Players silent film "A Daughter of the Wo... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Kitty Gray (played by Grace Cunard) holds a knife and struggles with a ruffian, while behind them two men fight on the floor and a third escapes out the wi... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Street scene from the film "The Birth of a Nation" featuring a battle between soldiers on foot and members of the Ku Klux Klan on horseback. The men on hor... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | The Queen of Sheba, played by Betty Blythe, sits in a cart and holds a sword above her head in William Fox's "Queen of Sheba" (1921). |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Thomas H. Ince gestures to a cameraman who is moving a Bell & Howell camera on its tripod. Over Ince's shoulder is William S. Hart in costume as a minister... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Mr. Warner's spare moments are divided between cleansing his car and photographing his baby while Mrs Warner devoted herself to photogra... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | John Storm (played by Harry Benham) is in a heated discussion with a police chief or some other authority (played by Morgan Jones) in a scene still from th... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | A crowd is gathered in a courtroom in this scene still from the Thanhouser serial "Zudora." The blonde man on the far left is the actor N.Z. Wood. Zudora (... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Zudora (played by Marguerite Snow) sits at a table while John Storm (Harry Benham) practices with a semi-automatic pistol in a candlelit basement in a scen... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | In a candlelit basement, John Storm (played by Harry Benham) loads bullets into a pistol magazine in a scene still for the Thanhouser serial "Zudora." The ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | In a scene still for "Women's Weapons," Nicolas Elliot (played by Elliot Dexter) sits at his desk looking stunned. His wife Anne Elliot (Ethel Clayton) sit... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Anatol Spencer (played by Wallace Reid) stands in a doorway with his wife Vivian (Gloria Swanson) in this scene still from Cecil B. DeMille's 1921 producti... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Betty Sherwin, played by Fannie Ward with her rock pick in hand, searches her inherited mine for gold in a scene still for the silent comedy "Betty to the ... |
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