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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Scene still from The Twins of Suffering Creek a western starring William Russell. He is posed with Malcolm Cripe and Helen Stone as the twins (Fox 1... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Tom Donaldson (played by John Bowers) is dressing with the help of his wife Grace (Louise Lovely) in a scene still from "The Poverty of Riches" (Goldwyn 19... |
| 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: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Antonio Moreno with his dog, Don Juan, sitting up on his haunches, and a friend. The three are rehearsing Tony's new serial, just comme... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | The child actor George Stone is embraced by Norma Talmadge in a scene still perhaps from the 1916 silent film "Martha's Vindication." Other films in which ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The Reverend Eric Norton (played by Hobart Bosworth) entertains a baby with a teddy bear in a publicity still from "The Scarlet Sin" (Universal, 1915). |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Arnold Lucy (playing a valet) wraps a towel around Wesley Barry (Speck Brown) who has just gotten out of the bath in a scene still from "School Days" (Warn... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Silent film star Conrad Nagel sits on a porch swing with his infant daughter Ruth Margaret Nagel on his knee and his wife Ruth Helms by his side reading a ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Silent film star Wallace Reid with his infant son Wallace Reid, Jr., on his knee and a collie dog. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Wallace Reid, Paramount star, his wife, formerly Dorothy Davenport, and their son William Wallace Reid Jr., otherwise known as Bill, at ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Silent film actress Marguerite Snow with her daughter Julie Jane Cruze on her knee. Behind them are theatrical scenery flats. The older man admiring the ch... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Milton Sills, featured player in 'Adam's Rib,' Cecil B. De Mille's new Paramount picture, and his eleven year old daughter Dorothy." |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | American stage and silent film actress Rose Tapley and her daughter Rosemary Holahan in a studio portrait autographed by Tapley. |
| 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: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Silent film star Claire Windsor in a lacy summer dress and sun hat with her small son Billy outdoors. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Jimmy Valentine (played by Robert Warwick) sleeps on the floor beside the bed of Rose Fay's baby sister (the child actress Madge Evans) in a heavily retouc... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Seated on a cushion on the floor, Chester Franklin directs a tender scene with the child actor Mickey Moore (Michael D. Moore) and Mary Miles Minter in a p... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Will Rogers, playing the school teacher Sam Lyman at right, comforts Cullen Landis and a young Mary Jane Irving in a scene still for "Almost a Husband." |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Amarilly Jenkins's family arrives for tea at the mansion of Mrs. Stuyvesant Phillips. From left to right: Mrs. Stuyvesant Phillips (played by Ida Waterman)... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Americus Jenkins (played by Kate Price) nurses her sick son (Wesley Barry) in a tenement set for the silent film "Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley." |
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