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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A dramatic publicity still of Walter Long from the film Birth of a Nation. Long played Gus, a "renegrade negro," in blackface. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A water-damaged, thoroughly-retouched publicity still of Richard Barthelmess sitting at a writing desk. It apparently appeared in "Photoplay Magazine" some... |
| Date: | 04 20 1922 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "A pause in the day's occupation--'Dick' Barthelmess's muscles are called more in to play in this work than in making a round of the eig... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Scene still on the set of a Mack Sennett Comedy, probably Those Athletic Girls of 1918. Louise Fazenda does a Russian dance. To the left of her is P... |
| 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: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Leonore Ulric as the American Indian girl Alona, "the half-breed daughter of a wealthy white man" (Moving Picture World 8/19/1916, p. 1268). She is in the ... |
| 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: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Sitting cross-legged on the floor, the Algerian girl Hafsa (played by Lenore Ulric) is offered jewelry and fine fabrics. Also in the scene, there appear to... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | The Algerian girl Hafsa (played by Lenore Ulric) has joined hands with Zorah (Estelle Allen). Behind them are a servant and, apparently Lucille Ward (as Le... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Hafsa (played by Lenore Ulric) stands outdoors in an Algerian market. |
| 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: | 1916 |
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| Description: | In dishabille, Paula Figueroa (played by Lenore Ulric) crouches on a bed in terror as Emiliano Pacheco (Howard Davies) and Bruce McLean (Forrest Stanley) f... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Bruce McLean (played by Forrest Stanley) has been captured by the Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Pacheco (Howard Davies) and his followers. |
| 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: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Florrie Ricks (played by Agnes Ayres), the daughter of a shipowner, attends to Matt Peasley (Thomas Meighan), a seaman who lies unconscious in her lap in a... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Two seamen, Matt Peasley (played by Thomas Meighan) and Murphy (Hugh Cameron), stand in a San Francisco street with their seabags at their feet in a public... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Shipowner Cappy Ricks (played by Charles Abbe) and seamen Matt Peasley (Thomas Meighan) and Ole Peterson (Ivan Linow) onboard a ship in a publicity still f... |
| 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: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Mercy Baxter (played by Mary Pickford) is a mountain girl who has fallen in love with Jack Henderson, a wealthy boy from the city. After his father tells h... |
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