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Ethel Grandin and Others in "Across the Plains"

Date: 1912
Description: Three or more pioneer women and an older man in buckskin look in horror at a threat--indians?--that is beyond the frame of the photograph in this scene sti...
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Film Still from "The Clodhopper"

Date: 1917
Description: Film still of two men standing outdoors looking at a newspaper. A horse is tethered behind them.
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Film Still of Actress Josie Sedgwick from "The Boss of the Lazy 'Y'"

Date: 1918
Description: Actress Josie Sedgwick plays Betty Clayton in this western. Betty is in charge of the Lazy Y ranch, and she is friendly with Calumet Marston, whose father ...
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Film Still of Actress Josie Sedgwick from "The Boss of the Lazy 'Y'"

Date: 1918
Description: Actress Josie Sedgwick plays Betty Clayton in this western. Betty is in charge of the Lazy Y ranch, and her young brother Bobby lives with her. Her grandfa...
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Film Still of Actress Josie Sedgwick from "The Boss of the Lazy 'Y'"

Date: 1918
Description: Actress Josie Sedgwick as Betty Clayton runs the Lazy Y ranch for Calumet Marston, who is in a feud with Neal Taggart and his father Tom. Betty is with two...
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Film Still from "The Bride of Hate"

Date: 1917
Description: Film still of an exterior with a man on a horse speaking with a woman standing below, reaching up to him.
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"Birth of a Nation" Street Battle

Date: 1915
Description: Street scene from the film "The Birth of a Nation" featuring a battle between soldiers on foot and members of the Ku Klux Klan on horseback. The men on hor...
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Tourists Visit Universal City

Date: 1916
Description: Seven well-dressed tourists visit Universal City and pose with actor Neal Hart who is in cowboy costume and has his horse nearby. A water tower is visible ...
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Neal Hart on Location

Date: 1916
Description: Actor Neal Hart in cowboy costume on a horse being filmed with a Bell & Howell 2709 motion picture camera in the countryside near Universal City. A group o...
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Dr. W.H. Perrigo Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist

Date: 1907
Description: A horse-drawn cart, marked B.C. Horsch, is waiting near Dr. W.H. Perrigo's veterinary and dental business in the S. Sixth Street neighborhood in Milwaukee....

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