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| 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: | 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: | 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... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Pausing by the door of his mountain cabin, Jim Baxter (played by Ogden Crane) notices that his daughter Mercy (Mary Pickford) and the wealthy visitor from ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Florence Lawrence watches as a young man with bandaged hands and face is transferred by two orderlies from a gurney onto a hospital bed. Also visible in th... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Pearl White stands in front of a painted studio background, sword in hand, wearing the female version of a U.S. Army cavalry uniform. |
| 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: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Bob Hildreth (a sculptor played by Frank Mayo) has designs on his student Lois Page (played by Ethel Clayton) in this scene still from "Easy Money." |
| 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: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Romola (played by Lillian Gish) and Tito Melema (William Powell) standing before the altar during their wedding in a scene still for Henry King's productio... |
| 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). |
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