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Family Portrait of Deitz Family

Date: 12 1910
Description: Photograph hanging on the wall of the family cabin of John F. Deitz. The glass of the picture was broken by a bullet piercing the walls between the logs in...
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Pearl White, Ralph Kellard, and Marie Wayne in "Pearl of the Army"

Date: 1916
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...
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Movie Poster for "The Bride of Hate"

Date: 1917
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
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Clara Kimball Young, John St. Polis, and Edwin August

Date: 1916
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...
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Scene Still with Grace Darling, Harry Fox, Robin H. Townley, and Mary Cranston

Date: 1916
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...
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Victim of East St. Louis Riots

Date: 07 04 1917
Description: A group of white men are posing along a pile of cinder blocks. In front of the blocks, and partially obscured by shadows, is the body of a black man. Capti...

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