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| 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: | Ray Myers courts Ethel Grandin as they sit on a boulder in a scene still from "Across the Plains," also known as "War on the Plains." Behind them is a smal... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Ethel Grandin and William E. Shay are sitting on porch steps talking in a scene still from "Across the Plains," also known as "War on the Plains." |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Dressed in her nightgown, Grace Remington (played by Norma Talmadge) is wide-eyed with terror in this scene still from "Going Straight" (Fine Arts 1916). |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Grace Remington (played by Norma Talmadge) and her husband John Remington (Ralph Lewis) are in a state of acute alarm in this scene still from the silent ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | The robber Jimmy Briggs (played by Eugene Pallette) menaces Grace Remington (Norma Talmadege) in her bedroom in this scene still from the silent feature fi... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | The robber Jimmy Briggs (played by Eugene Pallette) is stifling the cries of Grace Remington (Norma Talmadege) in this scene still from the silent feature ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Mr. Pepper (played by Charles Lee) lies dead on the floor as his daughter Jane (Irene Hunt) kneels beside him in shock. In the background sitting by a smal... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Mr. Pepper (played by Charles Lee) lies dead upon the floor while seven other characters stand about the room in attitudes of shock and bewilderment. On th... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Jane Pepper (played by Irene Hunt) is a reporter for "The Daily Mail." She sits at her typewriter while a group of six men talk behind her back in this sce... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Jane Pepper (played by Irene Hunt), a reporter for "The Daily Mail," turns around at her typewriter desk to overhear a conversation in the newsroom. Frank ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The actor Vester Pegg is reaching to shake the hand of Charles Lee (playing Mr. Pepper). Pepper's son and daughter watch (Jack Conway and Irene Hunt) in th... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Jane Pepper (played by Irene Hunt) and her brother (Jack Conway) are talking as their father (Charles Lee) sits at his desk. In the background is actor Ves... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Mr. Pepper's butler (played by Philip Gastrock) describes how his master was murdered to a group including Jane Pepper (Irene Hunt), her brother (Jack Conw... |
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