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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The Wall Street broker Mr. Berry (played by W.H. Brown) and his daughter (Billie West, wearing a hat with a white veil) sit in the back of a chauffeured op... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A contemporary caption on the back of the photograph identifies this scene still set in a farmyard as the actors Florence Crawford and W.E. Lawrence in "Ab... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A publicity still of the actor W.E. Lawrence cleaning up with a push broom, or at least pretending to do so. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Although identified as a scene still from "Above Par," this photograph of the actors Florence Crawford, W.E. Lawrence, and an unidentified actress playing ... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A boxing referee raises the gloved hand of Pat Glendon, Jr. (played by Reginald Denny) to mark him the winner of the bout by knockout in this scene still f... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | John Dent (played by Theodore Roberts) greets Louise Fowler (Mary MacLaren) and his son Jimmy Dent (Wallace Reid) after they have won a transcontinental au... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Jen Galbraith (played by Betty Compson) is embraced by Sergeant Flaherty of the Canadian Mounties (Tom Moore) in a snowy wilderness by a rushing river in a... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant Flaherty (played by Tom Moore) looks on suspiciously as Jen Galbraith (Betty Compson) talks to Pretty Pierre (Jean D... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Forrest (played by John Bowers) holds an axe as Lilith (Leatrice Joy) gazes into his face in this scene still from the silent film "The Ace of Hearts." The... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Carter (played by Mary Alden) and her daughter Helen (Bessie Love) try to comfort John Carter (Wilfred Lucas) their unemployed breadwinner in this sce... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | The child actor George Stone is embraced by Norma Talmadge in a scene still perhaps from the 1916 silent film "Martha's Vindication." Other films in which ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | William Clifford and Ethel Grandin in 1860s or 1870s period costume. They are apparently being guarded by two U.S. Army soldiers in this scene still for "A... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | William Robert Daly, leaning back in a chair with a wine glass and a cigar, and Ethel Grandin in a scene still attributed to the silent short "Across the P... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Three or more pioneer women and an older man in buckskin look in horror at a threat--indians?--that is beyond the frame of the photograph in this scene sti... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | In the foreground Ethel Grandin and Francis Ford embrace at the foot of a grave. Behind them are three covered wagons, numerous men and women on horseback,... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | In the left foreground Ethel Grandin is comforted by a U.S. Army cavalry officer. Behind them other officers and a woman standing by a Wells Fargo stagecoa... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | A gold prospector with pick, canteen, and pan gets an emotional greeting or goodbye from Ethel Grandin in this scene still from "Across the Plains," also k... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Night-time scene still from the Triangle silent film "Taxi," featuring Taylor Holmes (playing Robert Hervey Randolph) leaning on his taxi. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | William E. Shay has pulled a pistol on another actor in western dress as Ethel Grandin watches, on her knees with hands clasped in a scene still from "Acro... |
| 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... |
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