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| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Doña Sol de Guevara (played by Nita Naldi) relaxes smoking a cigarette on a divan as her male servant plays the lute in the 1922 Famous Players-Lasky produ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Albert E. Smith, one of the founders of the Vitagraph motion picture company, stands with a cigar in his mouth looking down at the silent film star Antonio... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Pearl Date (played by Pearl White) threatens Captain Ralph Payne (Ralph Kellard) with a piece of firewood as he struggles with Bertha Bonn (Marie Wayne) fo... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Paramount Pictures studio portrait of Emil Jannings in coat and tie with a cigar in his mouth. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Close-up, low-key publicity portrait of Emil Jannings in shirt and tie holding a cigar to his mouth. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Billy the pageboy (played by Jerry Devine) talks to Sherlock Holmes (John Barrymore), who is stretched out on a sofa smoking a pipe in a scene still from t... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still of a movie poster. Shows a scene with two people in conflict: a man with a raised arm and a woman putting up her hands in defense |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still of Interior bedroom with young woman in bed being comforted by a servant - a white actress in blackface. ("Black face" is written on the back of... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still of group of well-dressed men at a table playing a game of cards; money and drinks are on the table. The men are all wearing top hats. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still of two women, one extending her hand to a man, another man is standing by; a female servant in blackface is in the background. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Mary Pickford getting tobacco and cigarettes for the soldiers. In addition to supplying her own adopted contingents, Miss Pickford has s... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Sonia Sokoloff (played by Clara Kimball Young in a flowing white gown) shrinks back in alarm as Fedia (John St. Polis) receives a terrific right punch to t... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Pauline Frederick as Myra, wearing a kimono, reacts to the signs of her dissipation scattered on a table: playing cards, cigarettes, whiskey, the remains o... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | The silent film actors Viola Dana and Bert Lytell, wearing costumes for different productions, knock their coffee cups together in a toast that is apparent... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Louisiana doctor Dudley Duprez, played by Frank Keenan, makes a fist and glares angrily in a scene still for "The Bride of Hate," a drama of miscegenation ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | In this scene still for episode seven ("A Name for a Baby") of the silent serial "Beatrice Fairfax," Beatrice Fairfax (played by Grace Darling) bursts in u... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | This scene still for the 1922 Warner drama "The Beautiful and the Damned" is set in a wrecked room with an overturned chair and table, broken picture frame... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | In the title role for the silent drama "The Beggar of Cawnpore," the actor H. B. Warner poses in character as Dr. Robert Lowndes, a British army doctor in ... |
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