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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Donald Crisp, aviator Glenn Martin, and Mary Pickford in the 1915 silent comedy A Girl of Yesterday (Famous Players-Lasky, 1915). Martin is wearing ... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | "Air Circus" (Fox 1928) is the story of two flight school cadets (only David Rollins is pictured) and an accomplished aviatrix, Sue Carol, who can fly ring... |
| Date: | 11 05 1923 |
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| Description: | Inspiration Pictures publicity photograph of the Gish sisters and Richard Barthelemess on board a ship. Original caption: AT THE PARTING OF THE WAYS L... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Snapshot of J. Searle Dawley, Walter Hiers, and Billie Burke riding on top of a New York bus. Dawley is on the far left. Hiers sits next to Burke. An unkno... |
| 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: | 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: | 1912 |
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| Description: | A publicity still of Victor Film Company silent film star Florence Lawrence driving a Lozier open touring car with 1912 Pennsylvania license plates. |
| Date: | 02 1919 |
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| Description: | Six Mack Sennett bathing beauties wave as they sit on a Willys Six seven-seat touring car. Three of the actresses are tentatively identified as Marie Prevo... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Publicity still of silent film star Mary Miles Minter waves from behind the wheel of her Packard Twin-Six open touring car. Original caption: "Mary Mil... |
| Date: | 08 16 1916 |
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| Description: | The fifteen-year-old silent film actress Mary Miles Minter stands beside a two-seat roadster automobile looking at the director James Kirkwood sitting at t... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Silent film actress Vivian Martin sits behind the wheel of what appears to be a 1916 Cadillac two-door coupe. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Silent film star Pearl White behind the wheel of a 1915 Stutz Bearcat roadster with journalist George Vaux Bacon sitting beside her. The photograph was mad... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The Wall Street broker Mr. Berry (played by W.H. Brown) and his daughter (Billie West, wearing a hat with a white veil) sit in the back of a chauffeured op... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | John Dent (played by Theodore Roberts) greets Louise Fowler (Mary MacLaren) and his son Jimmy Dent (Wallace Reid) after they have won a transcontinental au... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | In the foreground Ethel Grandin and Francis Ford embrace at the foot of a grave. Behind them are three covered wagons, numerous men and women on horseback,... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | In the left foreground Ethel Grandin is comforted by a U.S. Army cavalry officer. Behind them other officers and a woman standing by a Wells Fargo stagecoa... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | The actress Corinne Griffith posing with an English bulldog and an open one seat runabout automobile in a publicity still for the silent film "The Adventur... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still of an exterior with a man and woman in conversation on a riverboat deck. Other people in background. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Mary Miles Minter and her director James Kirkwood in the street of the little old New England Village constructed behind the American F... |
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