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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still of a movie poster. A well-dressed man with a menacing facial expression and raised arm is standing by a bed, looking into mirror. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A menacing Sessu Hayakawa looms over a terrified Fannie Ward in a scene from the silent film "The Cheat" (Paramount 1915). In the upper right hand corner, ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | John Ford in a detail from a group portrait of the cast and crew of the 1915 Universal serial "The Broken Coin". John, then about twenty-one years old, act... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Mack Sennett, in a dark suit, and two technicians stand by a Prestwich camera on the set of an unidentified Middle Eastern themed Keystone Comedy. A belly ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Pauline Starke (as Emmy) and Arthur Rankin (as Bud) pose in a production still from the 1925 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production "Sun-Up." Behind them are two o... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Alan and Gretchen Hale and Alan Junior at the age of one year." |
| Date: | 09 1879 |
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| Description: | Childhood portrait of Raymond Hitchcock and his two sisters. Hitchcock would become a well-known actor and producer on Broadway and a player in silent film... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Frank Keenan, Star of Pathé Plays, snapped with Mrs. Keenan, their two daughters, son-in-law, and grand children just before his departu... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Silent film actor Tom Moore, his little daughter Alice Moore, and his brother the actor Owen Moore. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Silent film star Conrad Nagel sits on a porch swing with his infant daughter Ruth Margaret Nagel on his knee and his wife Ruth Helms by his side reading a ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Silent film star Wallace Reid with his infant son Wallace Reid, Jr., on his knee and a collie dog. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Wallace Reid, Paramount star, his wife, formerly Dorothy Davenport, and their son William Wallace Reid Jr., otherwise known as Bill, at ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Wally Reid and Billy ready for a swimming lesson in the pool at the beautiful Reid home." |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Silent film actor Wallace Reid sits at the foot of a Christmas tree with a teddy bear and his young son Wallace Reid, Jr. in his lap. A dog rests on the fl... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Milton Sills, featured player in 'Adam's Rib,' Cecil B. De Mille's new Paramount picture, and his eleven year old daughter Dorothy." |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Conrad Veidt, noted European screen actor, his wife and daughter Viola, taken on board the ship last Monday upon which he arrived in Ame... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Stage and silent film actor H.B. Warner holding his daughter Joan Warner in his arms. The child's mother was actress Rita Stanwood. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Mr. Warner's spare moments are divided between cleansing his car and photographing his baby while Mrs Warner devoted herself to photogra... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Four Generations of Washburns. Bryant Washburn, Essanay star, photographed with his grandmother, his father and his son. All 'Bryant Was... |
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