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| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Mae Murray, who just recently completed 'Circe,' as she looked when she appeared on the stage. Miss Murray started her career as a dance... |
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| Description: | Undated portrait of Roscoe Arbuckle, autographed as follows: Very Truly Yours, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle P.S. TO HELL WITH THE KAISER. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Samuel Goldwyn and (the second) Mrs. Goldwyn (nee Frances Howard) after their marriage in Jersey City. Photo by Ira L. Hill's Studio. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Publicity still of Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres in The Sheik. (Paramount 1921). |
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| Description: | Publicity portrait of Viola Dana, autographed to Delight Evans who was a critic writing for Photoplay, Screenland, and the New York Morning Tele... |
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| Description: | Publicity portrait of Karl Dane standing in what looks like a home. |
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| Description: | Publicity still of Karl Dane in western wear posing with an African-American woman and her two children. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Dramatic publicity still of Fannie Ward (playing Edith Hardy) and Sessue Hayakawa (as Hishuru Tori) in "The Cheat" (Lasky, 1915). Original caption: "Edith ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Sessue Hayakawa sits in a chair with his fist raised in a publicity still for "His Birthright" (Haworth 1918). |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | On the set of "The Road to Divorce" (Universal, 1920). Original caption: "Mr. Harry Nuttall, of England, member of the British Parliament from Manchest... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Belshazzar's feast in the central courtyard of Babylon from D.W. Griffith's silent film "Intolerance" (Wark 1916). |
| Date: | 06 30 1921 |
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| Description: | Over-the-shoulder portrait of the writer Anita Loos made by Charles James Fox in New York. With her bobbed hair and sharp sense of humor, Loos was the epit... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Portrait of screenwriter Anita Loos with braided hair by Apeda Studio of New York. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | The writer Anita Loos and the director John Emerson looking over a script on a film set. Emerson has a pince-nez on a cord and sits in a director's chair. ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | The actors, cameraman, and director discuss the script on location for the silent film "Sunshine Alley" (Goldwyn, 1917). On the right is a Bell & Howell mo... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Lorelei (played by Louise Lovely) playfully threatens Julie (Carmel Meyers) with a handful of seaweed as a group of sirens look on in the 1917 Universal pr... |
| Date: | 04 20 1922 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Does Dick Barthelmess read 'fan' letters? We'll say he does. The photographer caught him on his porch opening his mail, while waiting f... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Backlit publicity still of Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, and Dorothy Gish. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Portrait photograph of Richard Barthelmess. On the back is stamped: Marguerite Clark in "Bab's Burglar" a Parmount Picture. Barthelmess appeared in tha... |
| 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... |
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