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| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Gloria Swanson and Bobby Vernon in a scene from "Haystacks and Steeples". |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Rudolph Valentino puts his arm around Rosa Rosanova in a publicity still for the silent drama Blood and Sand. |
| 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: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A dramatic publicity still of Walter Long from the film Birth of a Nation. Long played Gus, a "renegrade negro," in blackface. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Theda Bara, stands and rests an arm against a pillar with one hand on the back of a chair, in a production still from the 1917 Fox production of Cleopat... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Art Acord as the Egyptian Kephren from the 1917 Fox production of Cleopatra. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | The Man (George O'Brien) suffers with guilt as he remembers his wedding vows, while the Wife (Janet Gaynor) comforts him, in a scene still from "Sunrise: A... |
| 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: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Portrait of screenwriter Anita Loos with braided hair by Apeda Studio of New York. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | The writer Anita Loos and the director John Emerson looking over a script on a film set. Emerson has a pince-nez on a cord and sits in a director's chair. ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | The actors, cameraman, and director discuss the script on location for the silent film "Sunshine Alley" (Goldwyn, 1917). On the right is a Bell & Howell mo... |
| 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: | A water-damaged, thoroughly-retouched publicity still of Richard Barthelmess sitting at a writing desk. It apparently appeared in "Photoplay Magazine" some... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of director D. W. Griffith wearing a straw boater. Original caption: "David W. Griffith, Reliance-Majestic." |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Director D.W. Griffith appears to be adjusting actor Robert Harron's moustache. Original caption: "Making up Bobbie." |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of the director D. W. Griffith wearing an overcoat and homburg hat. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Publicity still of Valeska Suratt wearing a hat composed mostly of wires, c. 1916. A stamp on the back of the print reads: William Fox presents VALESKA... |
| 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: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Ramon Novarro on a motion picture set dressed as a French army officer, perhaps from Mr. Barnes of New York. |
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