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| Date: | 08 21 1917 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "The above picture is the first that has been taken of Mrs. Vernon Castle and her soldier husband since he returned to this country aft... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Valda Valkyrien wears a very smart vertically striped dress under a dark double-breasted jacket. Apparently she has just caught a shark on a Florida beach.... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Sydney Chaplin (Charlie Chaplin's brother) and a German shepherd dog. Original title: "Syd Chaplin and 'Prince,' a war hero, cited three times for brave... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Kitty Gordon and two dogs in a sunroom. The star of musical comedy, vaudeville, and silent films, Kitty Gordon, and two dogs, wolfhounds or deerhounds. ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "This boy's parents never could see moving picture actors until Antonio Moreno rented the bungalow next to theirs in Hollywood. Now they... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Antonio Moreno with his dog, Don Juan, sitting up on his haunches, and a friend. The three are rehearsing Tony's new serial, just comme... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "It's Blanche Sweet's own dog, but a neighbor's child." |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | The actress Norma Talmadge is posed outdoors in an athletic outfit, black bloomers with white tassels, holding her Pomeranian dog "Dinky." Next to her is h... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of Triangle films star Olive Thomas wearing a light-colored suit and holding a Pekinese dog under her arm. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Mr. and Mrs. Bryant Washburn and Bryant Washburn IVth and his dog 'Kewpie' taken in the garden of their home at 7003 Hawthorne Avenue, ... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Henry Peck (played by Jackie Coogan) has been caught in a net by the dog catcher in this scene still from the silent film "Peck's Bad Boy" (First National ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Vivian Martin (playing Lindy) confronts Togo the dog whom she has caught washing a toddler (or perhaps a doll) in a washtub in "An Innocent Adventuress" (L... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still exterior of a group of people at a picnic. A man is holding a bear with a chain in the center of the image. Booths can be seen in background, on... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still of two men standing outdoors looking at a newspaper. A horse is tethered behind them. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still of a picnic in "The Clod Hopper". Spectators are at a mule-riding attraction. There is a man on a mule in a enclosure, while a second man in a c... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| 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... |
| 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: | 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. |
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