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| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Publicity portrait of Valda Valkyrien, known as "The Movie Star of Denmark." |
| 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: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Robbers, guns drawn, escort the engineer from the locomotive in a scene from The Great Train Robbery. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | The huge waiter (played by Eric Campbell) glowers at the immigrant (Charlie Chaplin). To the right are Edna Purviance playing another immigrant and Henry B... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Publicity still from the silent film The Birth of a Nation of Mae Marsh with her hands held to her face. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio publicity still of Richard Barthelmess as David Kinemon in Tol'able David (First National 1921). He is barefoot, wears rough clot... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | The characters Lorna Barton (played by Ethel Grandin) and Bill Bradshaw (William Cavanaugh) in a cafe scene from Traffic in Souls (1913, IMP). |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | The tramp (played by Charlie Chaplin) and the kid (Jackie Coogan) peer around a wall with the police officer (Tom Wilson) standing behind them, from The... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Undated studio portrait of Jesse Lasky, pioneer motion picture producer, with his autograph. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Mae Murray, who just recently completed 'Circe,' as she looked when she appeared on the stage. Miss Murray started her career as a dance... |
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| Description: | Undated portrait of Roscoe Arbuckle, autographed as follows: Very Truly Yours, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle P.S. TO HELL WITH THE KAISER. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Portrait of screenwriter Anita Loos with braided hair by Apeda Studio of New York. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Lorelei (played by Louise Lovely) playfully threatens Julie (Carmel Meyers) with a handful of seaweed as a group of sirens look on in the 1917 Universal pr... |
| 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: | Portrait photograph of Richard Barthelmess. On the back is stamped: Marguerite Clark in "Bab's Burglar" a Parmount Picture. Barthelmess appeared in tha... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of the director D.W. Griffith by Frank Bangs of New York. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Valeska Suratt wears a spider dress and on her head is a webbed hat, proof positive that she is a vamp. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Lovely portrait photograph of Louise Fazenda when she acted for the Joker Comedy unit at Universal, c. 1913-14. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length seated portrait of Billie Burke distributed as publicity for the 1918 Famous Players-Lasky film comedy The Make Believe Wife. T... |
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