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| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | A frame enlargement from Thomas Edison's 1896 silent film "The Kiss" featuring May Irwin and John C. Rice reprising the controversial final scene of the pl... |
| Date: | 09 1879 |
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| Description: | Childhood portrait of Raymond Hitchcock and his two sisters. Hitchcock would become a well-known actor and producer on Broadway and a player in silent film... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Frank Keenan, Star of Pathé Plays, snapped with Mrs. Keenan, their two daughters, son-in-law, and grand children just before his departu... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Stage and silent film actor H.B. Warner holding his daughter Joan Warner in his arms. The child's mother was actress Rita Stanwood. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Harry Myers and Marie Prevost perform in a makeshift home theater with footlights made from candles on canned goods in a scene still for the silent drama "... |
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