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Ethel Grandin, J. Barney Sherry, and Others in "Across the Plains"



Ethel Grandin, J. Barney Sherry, and Others in
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Title: Ethel Grandin, J. Barney Sherry, and Others in "Across the Plains"
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 stagecoach are recuperating from an attack in this scene still from the one-reel silent film "Across the Plains," also known as "War on the Plains." J. Barney Sherry appears to be the actor whose gloved hand on the chest of the swooning officer.

Image ID: 90280
Creation
Date:
1912 
Creator
Name:
Bison Motion Pictures
Collection
Name:
Genre: Photographs
Additional
Information:
Notes on the back of the print list the actors Ray Meyers (probably Ray Myers was meant), William Clifford, Barnard Sherrie (probably J. Barney Sherry), Howard Davies, and Ethel Grendin (Ethel Grandin) but with the two exceptions above these identifications are difficult to verify.
Subjects: Soldiers
Stagecoaches
Military uniforms
Actors
Actresses
Silent films
 

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Please Credit: Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research

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