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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: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Publicity still from the silent film The Birth of a Nation of Mae Marsh with her hands held to her face. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Portrait of screenwriter Anita Loos with braided hair by Apeda Studio of New York. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Portrait photograph of Louise Fazenda wearing a large floppy hat when she acted for the Joker Comedy unit at Universal. The handwritten caption at the b... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Louise Vale holding roses, by the White Studio of New York. She was a silent film actress who died from the Spanish Flu in M... |
| 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: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Full-length publicity portrait of Leonore Ulric who played Alona in "Her Own People." |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | In Algiers, Hafsa (played by Lenore Ulric) is on her knees in supplication to her father, Sidi Malik (Herschell Mayall). The caption typed on the back of t... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Full page display ad for the husband and wife filmmaking team of John Emerson and Anita Loos in the 1918 edition of Wid's Yearbook, a motion picture trade ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Huntly Gordon (in character as Harleth Crossey) and Irene Castle (as Marcia Crossey) pose outdoors in a full-length publicity photograph for "The Invisible... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Edith Henderson (played by Boots Wall) and Mercy Baxter (Mary Pickford) in a scene still from "Caprice" (Lasky 1913). A caption written on the back of the ... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Lillian Gish, in costume as Henriette Girard, and Dorothy Gish, as Louise Girard, in a publicity photograph for D.W. Griffith's 1921 production "Orphans of... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Irene Castle in a complicated satin and tulle costume in her role as the cabaret dancer Palma May in the silent film "French Heels" (Holtre 1922). |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Irene Castle in a gauzy tulle and satin dress poses full-length in an air-brushed publicity photograph. The caption printed on the back of the print reads:... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Publicity still for the Artcraft movie "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm," featuring Mary Pickford in the title role, in costume, reading the book by Kate Dougla... |
| 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: | 1925 |
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| Description: | This glamorous half-length publicity still shows Pola Negri dressed for the role of the Countess Elnora Natatorini in the 1925 Paramount production "A Woma... |
| 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: | 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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