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| 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: | 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 Algiers, Hafsa (played by Lenore Ulric) is on her knees in supplication to her father, Sidi Malik (Herschell Mayall). The caption typed on the back of t... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Edith Henderson (played by Boots Wall) and Mercy Baxter (Mary Pickford) in a scene still from "Caprice" (Lasky 1913). A caption written on the back of the ... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Mercy Baxter (played by Mary Pickford) is a mountain girl who has fallen in love with Jack Henderson, a wealthy boy from the city. After his father tells h... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | The wealthy playboy Jack Henderson (played by Owen Moore) has accidentally shot Mercy Baxter (Mary Pickford) in the arm and has carried her to her home in ... |
| 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, seated at a table with a mop, bucket, and feather duster, has stopped work to read a book. Behind her an older woman, probably played by... |
| 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: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Bob Hildreth (a sculptor played by Frank Mayo) has designs on his student Lois Page (played by Ethel Clayton) in this scene still from "Easy Money." |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Irene Castle in a complicated satin and tulle costume in her role as the cabaret dancer Palma May in the silent film "French Heels" (Holtre 1922). |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Justine Spotiswood (played by Irene Castle wearing a turban with feathers) and Cosmo Spotiswood (William P. Carleton) gaze into each others eyes in a scene... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Cosmo Spotiswood (played by William P. Carleton on the right) confronts a man who has designs on his wife Justine (played by Irene Castle). Castle is dress... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | In a backstage dressing room, the straight-laced and innocent Justine Spencer (played by Irene Castle) is shocked to find that her mother (Augusta Anderson... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still of actor, interior kitchen of the farmhouse. Background includes a Hoosier cabinet. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still of a man seated at a roll-top desk in his office. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still of group of well-dressed men at a table playing a game of cards; money is on the table. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still of group of well-dressed men at a table playing a game of cards; money and drinks are on the table. The men are all wearing top hats. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Film still of two women, one in blackface comforting a young woman sitting on her lap. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still of two women, one extending her hand to a man, another man is standing by; a female servant in blackface is in the background. |
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