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Scene Still with Cullen Landis, Mary Jane Irving, and Will Rogers

Date: 1919
Description: Will Rogers, playing the school teacher Sam Lyman at right, comforts Cullen Landis and a young Mary Jane Irving in a scene still for "Almost a Husband."
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Enid Markey and Willard Mack Scene Still

Date: 1915
Description: Enid Markey, in a grass skirt, plays Kalaniweo, the Polynesian chief's daughter. Embracing her is Willard Mack playing David Harmon, a shipwrecked lawyer i...
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"Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley" Scene Still

Date: 1918
Description: Amarilly Jenkins's family arrives for tea at the mansion of Mrs. Stuyvesant Phillips. From left to right: Mrs. Stuyvesant Phillips (played by Ida Waterman)...
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Wesley Barry and Kate Price in Scene Still

Date: 1918
Description: Mrs. Americus Jenkins (played by Kate Price) nurses her sick son (Wesley Barry) in a tenement set for the silent film "Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley."
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Marguerite Clark and Jack Mulhall Publicity Still

Date: 1920
Description: In this publicity still for "All of a Sudden Peggy," Marguerite Clark and Jack Mulhall are talking outdoors in a rose garden. Both are dressed very fashion...
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Howard Davies and Myrtle Stedman Scene Still

Date: 1916
Description: The dissolute Herbert Lorrimer (played by Howard Davies) leers at Ruth Cleave (Myrtle Steadman) as they are served champagne by an African servant wearing ...
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Jane Lee and Katherine Lee in a scene still.

Date: 1918
Description: The child actors Jane Lee and her sister Katherine divide a man's pajama top and bottom between them in a cute scene still for "American Buds."
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Alma Reubens and Douglas Fairbanks scene still.

Date: 1917
Description: Juana de Castalar (played by Alma Reubens) has her hand kissed by Blaze Derringer (Douglas Fairbanks) in a scene still for "The Americano." Reubens is cost...
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Mary Miles Minter scene still.

Date: 1919
Description: Mary Miles Minter plays the orphan Anne Shirley in a scene still for "Anne of Green Gables." She is costumed as a young girl with pigtails and freckles and...
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Scene still with Louise Fazenda, Don Marion, Eddie Gribbon, and Billy Bevan.

Date: 1921
Description: Louise Fazenda holds baby Don Marion who holds a revolver on Eddie Gribbon who is held about the waist by Billy Bevan in a scene still for the Mack Sennett...
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Ethel Clayton in a scene still for "The Attorney for the Defense."

Date: 1915
Description: Ethel Clayton, playing Ruth Wingate, stands between a cab driver or chauffeur and another man to whom she speaks, who may well be the actor John Ince. A cr...
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Scene still with Francis Carpenter, Herschel Mayall, and Virginia Lee Corbin.

Date: 1917
Description: John Hamilton (played by Herschel Mayall) sits on a couch with two children: Roland, who is in a sailor suit, played by Francis Carpenter and Rose, who is ...
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Olive Johnson, Violet Radcliffe, Francis Carpenter, and Teddy the Dog at the beach.

Date: 1915
Description: From left to right, digging in beach sand, are Olive Johnson, Violet Radcliffe, Teddy the Dog, and Francis Carpenter in a scene still for the 1915 silent s...
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Olive Johnson, Teddy the Dog, and Francis Carpenter look out to sea.

Date: 1915
Description: With their backs to the camera, Olive Johnson, Teddy the Dog, and Francis Carpenter stand on the shore and look out to sea in this scene still for the 1915...
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Teddy the Dog and Baby Guerin on the beach.

Date: 1915
Description: In this scene still for the 1915 silent short film "The Baby," Teddy the Dog lies on the beach and looks out at the Pacific. Baby Guerin has been placed on...
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Louise Fazenda and John Henry, Jr. in a scene still.

Date: 1918
Description: In a kitchen with a counter covered with baking supplies, Louise Fazenda entertains the child actor John Henry, Jr. with a snake made of dough in a scene s...
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Bruce Guerin, Leatrice Joy, and Thomas Meighan in a scene still

Date: 1922
Description: Tucked in bed, the orphaned baby Toodles (played by Bruce Guerin) is attended by Sally Lockwood (Leatrice Joy) who is the secretary of Richard Chester (Tho...
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Mae Gaston and two little girls in a scene still

Date: 1915
Description: Actress Mae Gaston gives a baby doll to a poor flower girl as an older and more prosperous girl looks on in a scene still from the 1915 Reliance film "The ...
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Jennie Lee and a small girl in a scene still

Date: 1915
Description: Actress Jennie Lee bends over a small flower girl who wears a kerchief on her head. They stand on the front porch of an impoverished house in this scene st...
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Pedro de Cordoba and Elsie Ferguson scene still for "Barbary Sheep"

Date: 1917
Description: The Arab chieftan Benchaalal (played by Pedro de Cordoba) romances the English noblewoman Lady Wyverne (Elsie Ferguson) in a scene still for the silent fil...

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