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| Date: | 12 28 1923 |
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| Description: | Likely a 1923 Goldwyn production Red Lights publicity portrait of Dagmar Godowsky wearing a beaded headdress. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Scene still from "Johnny on the Spot" with Hale Hamilton and Louise Lovely (Metro, 1919). |
| 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: | 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: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Billie Burke distributed as publicity for the 1916 Kleine film Gloria's Romance. Her costume is a modified gaucho outfit, with hat, cape... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Rudolph Valentino as Julio Desnoyers in the 1921 Metro Pictures production The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. He is... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini in a scene from the silent motion picture, "The Grim Game." |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Leonore Ulric as the American Indian girl Alona, "the half-breed daughter of a wealthy white man" (Moving Picture World 8/19/1916, p. 1268). She is in the ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | In dishabille, Paula Figueroa (played by Lenore Ulric) crouches on a bed in terror as Emiliano Pacheco (Howard Davies) and Bruce McLean (Forrest Stanley) f... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Bruce McLean (played by Forrest Stanley) has been captured by the Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Pacheco (Howard Davies) and his followers. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Huntly Gordon (in character as Harleth Crossey) and Irene Castle (as Marcia Crossey) pose outdoors in a full-length publicity photograph for "The Invisible... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Florrie Ricks (played by Agnes Ayres), the daughter of a shipowner, attends to Matt Peasley (Thomas Meighan), a seaman who lies unconscious in her lap in a... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Two seamen, Matt Peasley (played by Thomas Meighan) and Murphy (Hugh Cameron), stand in a San Francisco street with their seabags at their feet in a public... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Shipowner Cappy Ricks (played by Charles Abbe) and seamen Matt Peasley (Thomas Meighan) and Ole Peterson (Ivan Linow) onboard a ship in a publicity still f... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Pausing by the door of his mountain cabin, Jim Baxter (played by Ogden Crane) notices that his daughter Mercy (Mary Pickford) and the wealthy visitor from ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Florence Lawrence watches as a young man with bandaged hands and face is transferred by two orderlies from a gurney onto a hospital bed. Also visible in th... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Pearl White stands in front of a painted studio background, sword in hand, wearing the female version of a U.S. Army cavalry uniform. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Pearl Date (played by Pearl White) threatens Captain Ralph Payne (Ralph Kellard) with a piece of firewood as he struggles with Bertha Bonn (Marie Wayne) fo... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Minnie Penelope Peck (played by Mabel Normand) stands on the doorstep of an impoverished house with a traveling bag in her hand. |
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