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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Donald Crisp, aviator Glenn Martin, and Mary Pickford in the 1915 silent comedy A Girl of Yesterday (Famous Players-Lasky, 1915). Martin is wearing ... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Robbers, guns drawn, escort the engineer from the locomotive in a scene from The Great Train Robbery. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | French-born silent film actor Gaston Glass at the wheel of a touring car with a spare tire mounted on the running board. Glass later became an assistant di... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | John Dent (played by Theodore Roberts) greets Louise Fowler (Mary MacLaren) and his son Jimmy Dent (Wallace Reid) after they have won a transcontinental au... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Night-time scene still from the Triangle silent film "Taxi," featuring Taylor Holmes (playing Robert Hervey Randolph) leaning on his taxi. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Yvonne Halbert (played by Mary Miles Minter) and Lawrence Bartlett (Alan Forrest) make pains to ignore each other as they sit side-by-side in the back of a... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Actresses Anna May Wong and Estelle Taylor are hitched to a decrepit carriage driven by director Herbert Brenon in a publicity still for the 1924 Famous Pl... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Bab Archibald (played by Marguerite Clark) washes a very muddy automobile that appears to be an Overland open touring car in this scene still for "Bab's Bu... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Bab Archibald (played by Marguerite Clark) washes a very muddy automobile that appears to be an Overland open touring car in this scene still for "Bab's Bu... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Tommy Gray (played by Richard Barthelmess) has his ring returned by Bab Archibald (Marguerite Clark) in a scene still for "Bab's Burglar." Barthelmess wear... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | As Bab Archibald (played by Marguerite Clark) and Tommy Gray (Richard Barthelmess) share a bicycle, Tommy tries to steal a kiss in a scene still for "Bab... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Actress Ella Hall sits behind the wheel of an open roadster automobile, perhaps a Stutz Bearcat. Sitting beside her is Robert Z. Leonard costumed for a cou... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Owen Moore is behind the wheel of a two-seat open roadster automobile with Dorothy Gish beside him in this scene still for the silent drama "Betty of Grays... |
| 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: | 1916 |
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| Description: | In a heavily retouched scene still for the silent drama "The Black Butterfly," Sonia Smirnov (played by Olga Petrova) and Alan Hall (Mahlon Hamilton) stand... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Publicity still from 1913 heavily retouched for the July 7, 1928, issue of Liberty (magazine). The original caption reads: "Wallace Reid and Dorothy Davenp... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Buster Keaton hoists a Model T engine from a wrecked car as Virginia Fox flirts with an unidentified actor in a scene still for the 1922 comedy short "The ... |
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