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| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Actress Florence Lawrence seated at the vanity mirror in her dressing room wearing a white satin dressing gown and night cap. |
| 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: | 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: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Scene still with Marshall Neilan, in white shirt, and Ruth Roland in a room crowded with police officers from one of the many silent films they made for Ka... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Three young cavemen--cavepersons?--react in fear to an offscreen threat. From left to right the actors are Anna Q. Nilsson, Pauline Garon, and Theodore Kos... |
| Date: | 11 1917 |
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| Description: | In this photo-collage, part of a promotional still from Charlie Chaplin's film "The Adventurer" with an actor wearing a huge false beard and moustache clos... |
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