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| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | White Studio portrait of vaudevillian Bert Williams. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Bert Williams (right) and Leon Errol (left) are a cabbie and his fare from the 1912 Ziegfield Follies. The cab is drawn by a rumpled pantomime horse. Behin... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph poster. The top banner reads "Charles Frohman presents." The image shows Burke in profile, underneath which runs the caption "Miss Billie ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph poster. Top caption reads "Social Session" with an insert to the right containing an image of "D. J. Sprague, Manager." The image shows me... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Production still of the Keystone pool. On the far left is Mack Sennett, coatless, in derby and suspenders. On the far right is Adam Kessel, coatless, in a ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | The theatrical Stone family at Chin Chin Ranch. From left to right: Allene Crater (Mrs. Fred Stone), Fred Stone, Dorothy Stone, Carol Stone, and Paula Ston... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Charlie Chaplin, in tuxedo, surrounded by guests in the party scene from "The Adventurer." He is speaking to Marta Golden who holds a feather fan. In the b... |
| Date: | 11 1917 |
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| Description: | In this photo-collage, part of a promotional still from Charlie Chaplin's film "The Adventurer" with an actor wearing a huge false beard and moustache clos... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | In this scene still from Chaplin's 1917 silent film "The Adventurer," Eric Campbell, made-up with large eyebrows, beard, and moustache, closely scrutinizes... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Al St. John (at right) and two other actors in a publicity still for "The Alarm," a William Fox production from 1922. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Louise Fazenda holds baby Don Marion who holds a revolver on Eddie Gribbon who is held about the waist by Billy Bevan in a scene still for the Mack Sennett... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Actress Anna Luther peeps over the top of a dressing screen at the back of a bathroom set at the Keystone Studios in a production still for the 1916 short ... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | The undertaker Sobini (played by Billy B. Van) struggles for the spaghetti with Dr. Arbutus Budd (Raymond Hitchcock) in a scene still for the silent 1922 c... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Dr. Arbutus Budd (played by Raymond Hitchcock in an aristocratic uniform) appears stunned as Cremo Panatella (Louise Fazenda made up with a large false nos... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | From left to right, grouped around a table in a courtyard in a scene still from the 1922 silent comedy "The Beauty Shop," are the actors James J. Corbett, ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Joe Weber, left, watches as Lew Fields hands a butler his overcoat in a publicity still used to promote the 1915 Keystone comedy "The Best of Enemies." |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Seated around a table in a dining room, Mary Thurman offers a spoonful of peas to Ford Sterling (at right, dressed as a dandy) while Chester Conklin begs f... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | It is a disastrous day for traveling salesman Bill Henry Jenkins (played by Charles Ray) who has just wrecked his bicycle in a scene still for the silent c... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The stenographer Ethel (played by Fay Tincher) sits on a bench holding hands with Ed (Edward Dillon) as a man in a moustache, probably Ed's father (Max Dav... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | In this courtroom scene still for the Keystone silent comedy "Black Eyes and Blue," the judge is played by Jack Henderson. The woman in the black hat is pr... |
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