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Poster for Morris Brothers' Opera House Minstrels

Date: 1857
Description: Black and white lithograph on paper. Title over image of minstrel company. Inserts of Lon and Billy Morris, left and right. Large image of man papering sto...
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Cullen Landis, Daughter and Dog

Date: 1918
Description: Silent film actor Cullen Landis with his three-year-old daughter.
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Stan Laurel, Wife and Baby Daughter

Date: 12 1927
Description: Actor Stan Laurel, his wife Lois Neilson, their newborn daughter Lois, and their dog Lady.
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Mary Miles Minter with her Mother and Grandmother

Date: 1917
Description: From left to right: Charlotte Shelby (mother of Mary Miles Minter), Mrs. E.M. Miles (mother of Charlotte Shelby), and Mary Miles Minter, the silent film st...
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The Schildkraut Family

Date: 1926
Description: From left to right: Erna Weinstein Schildkraut, her son Joseph Schildkraut, and her husband Rudolph Schildkraut.
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Mack Sennett and his Mother

Date: 1922
Description: Silent film producer and director Mack Sennett, wearing at least two sweaters, with his mother and a Bell & Howell motion picture camera in a heavily retou...
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Conrad Veidt and Family

Date: 1926
Description: Original caption: "Conrad Veidt, noted European screen actor, his wife and daughter Viola, taken on board the ship last Monday upon which he arrived in Ame...
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Bryant Washburn with his Father, Grandmother and Baby Son

Date: 1916
Description: Original caption: "Four Generations of Washburns. Bryant Washburn, Essanay star, photographed with his grandmother, his father and his son. All 'Bryant Was...
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Pat and Johnny O'Brien

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Description: Pat O'Brien stands next to his son Johnny who plays football for Notre Dame University. Pat is wearing a suit and necktie while Johnny is wearing his footb...

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