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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | English noblewoman Lady Wyverne (played by Elsie Ferguson) poses on a balcony in a Moorish palace and offers her hand to Arab chieftan Benchaalal (Pedro de... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | English noblewoman Lady Wyverne (played by Elsie Ferguson) displays herself with a dreamy look on her face and her left arm posed above her head. She wears... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | English noblewoman Kathryn, Lady Wyverne (played by Elsie Ferguson), sits on the edge of a rustic well in a scene still for the 1917 silent film "Barbary S... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | English noblewoman Kathryn, Lady Wyverne (played by Elsie Ferguson), stands in a prayerful attitude in a scene still for the 1917 silent film "Barbary Shee... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Jane the waif (played by Dorothy Gish) offers Baby Sheldon (Ernest Marion) a pancake in a scene still for the silent film "Battling Jane." Behind them is a... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | In a scene still for "Bawbs o' Blue Ridge," Barbara "Bawbs" Colby (played by Bessie Barriscale) entertains six African-American children among the trees of... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Marion Davies, costumed as an East Indian princess, sits enthroned at the back of a lavishly decorated set surrounded by a crowd of worshipful soldiers, da... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Full face, quarter-length studio portrait of the actress Marion Davies used to promote the 1922 silent drama "Beauty's Worth." She wears several strands of... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | In this scene still for the silent drama "The Beckoning Flame," the Indian colonial administrator Harry Dickson (played by Henry Woodruff) and his English ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | The Indian princess Janira (played by Japanese actress Tsuru Aoki) is seated on a raised platform on the left. In front of her are four dancing girls and a... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | German U-boat commander Lieutenant Brandt (played by Wallace Beery) and American Merchant Marine Captain Oscar Krug (Hobart Bosworth) face a crowd of angry... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Frank Armour (played by Milton Sills) and his wife Lali (Mabel Julienne Scott) stand on either side of their sleeping child's bed in a scene still for the ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Wallace Reid, wearing jodhpurs and a work shirt, stands in a sherrif's office with a ball and chain attached to his ankle. Behind him is a rolltop desk and... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Hardware store owners Louie Vanderiff (played by Clarence Kolb at left) and Mike Amsterdammer (Max Dill) pose in rough working clothes in a scene still for... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Louie Vanderiff (played by Clarence Kolb at left) and Mike Amsterdammer (Max Dill) pose in street clothes in a scene still for the 1917 silent comedy "Belo... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | In this publicity still for "Betrayed," a 1917 Fox silent drama set in Mexico, the actors Monte Blue, Miriam Cooper, and Hobart Bosworth pose in costume ag... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | During a tea party in an English garden, Little Dick Beverly (played by the child actor Ben Alexander) feeds a piece of cake to the American visitor Charmi... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Harold Lockwood, as John Tremaine, Jr., sits in an overstuffed chair with one young actor on his shoulders and actor Ben Alexander at his feet, in a scene ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Wearing a fur-trimmed coat, Phyllis King (played by Mary Miles Minter) is shaking hands with Grayson Blair (Alan Forrest) in a scene still for the silent d... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders studio portrait of Florence Lawrence wearing a hat. She wears a cameo and looks directly at the camera. |
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