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Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan in The Kid.

Date: 1921
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...
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Jackie Coogan and Wheeler Oakman in "Peck's Bad Boy"

Date: 1921
Description: Henry Peck, the "bad boy" of the title played by Jackie Coogan, and Dr. Martin (played by Wheeler Oakman) are on a railroad velocipede handcar staring at w...
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Jackie Coogan in "Peck's Bad Boy"

Date: 1921
Description: Henry Peck, the "bad boy" played by Jackie Coogan, is caught with his hand in the apple barrel by a police officer in this scene still from the silent film...
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Jackie Coogan and Wheeler Oakman in "Peck's Bad Boy"

Date: 1921
Description: Henry Peck (played by Jackie Coogan) has been caught in a net by the dog catcher in this scene still from the silent film "Peck's Bad Boy" (First National ...
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"School Days" Scene Still

Date: 1921
Description: Speck Brown (played by Wesley Barry) wearing fancy new city clothes--a Chesterfield coat, checked trousers, spats, cane, white gloves, and a straw boater--...
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"An Innocent Adventuress" Scene Still

Date: 1919
Description: Vivian Martin (playing Lindy) confronts Togo the dog whom she has caught washing a toddler (or perhaps a doll) in a washtub in "An Innocent Adventuress" (L...
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Raymond Hitchcock and Sisters

Date: 09 1879
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...
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Tom Moore, Alice Joyce Moore, and Owen Moore

Date: 1918
Description: Silent film actor Tom Moore, his little daughter Alice Moore, and his brother the actor Owen Moore.
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Store Scene Still from "Zudora"

Date: 1914
Description: John Storm (played by Harry Benham) talks to a cheese maker (Justus D. Barnes) in his shop in a scene still from the Thanhouser serial "Zudora." The print ...
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Francis Carpenter in Scene Still

Date: 1917
Description: The six year old child actor Francis Carpenter, as Aladdin, holds the lamp and looks up in a scene still from the 1917 William Fox production "Aladdin and ...
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Jane Lee and Katherine Lee in a scene still.

Date: 1918
Description: The child actors Jane Lee and her sister Katherine divide a man's pajama top and bottom between them in a cute scene still for "American Buds."
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Mary Miles Minter scene still.

Date: 1919
Description: Mary Miles Minter plays the orphan Anne Shirley in a scene still for "Anne of Green Gables." She is costumed as a young girl with pigtails and freckles and...
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Olive Johnson, Violet Radcliffe, Francis Carpenter, and Teddy the Dog at the beach.

Date: 1915
Description: From left to right, digging in beach sand, are Olive Johnson, Violet Radcliffe, Teddy the Dog, and Francis Carpenter in a scene still for the 1915 silent s...

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