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| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | A boxing ring lobby display at the Empire Theatre for Battling Butler with Buster Keaton. The lobby cards read, "It's a knockout. Buster Keaton in '... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Original title: "This is one of the rare snapshots which a photographer gets only once in a peagreen moon. Dorothy Phillips, star of Allen Holubar's Th... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Silent film actress Ruth Roland in riding costume and a velveteen cap playing with a small monkey. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Silent film actress Anita Stewart poses with a golf bag slung over her shoulder and a German shepherd dog. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Silent film actress Anita Stewart holds a live rabbit and wears a dead fox. Original caption: "Anita Stewart with her pet rabbits at her home in Hollyw... |
| 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: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Cullen Landis, who has become one of the screen's most popular figures, used to be a camera-man, or cinematographer, as they say in Fren... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Mary Pickford getting tobacco and cigarettes for the soldiers. In addition to supplying her own adopted contingents, Miss Pickford has s... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Alan and Gretchen Hale and Alan Junior at the age of one year." |
| Date: | 09 1879 |
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| Description: | Childhood portrait of Raymond Hitchcock and his two sisters. Hitchcock would become a well-known actor and producer on Broadway and a player in silent film... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Silent film actor Tom Moore, his little daughter Alice Moore, and his brother the actor Owen Moore. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Silent film actor Wallace Reid sits at the foot of a Christmas tree with a teddy bear and his young son Wallace Reid, Jr. in his lap. A dog rests on the fl... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Silent film actress Marguerite Snow with her daughter Julie Jane Cruze on her knee. Behind them are theatrical scenery flats. The older man admiring the ch... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Mr. Warner's spare moments are divided between cleansing his car and photographing his baby while Mrs Warner devoted herself to photogra... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Four Generations of Washburns. Bryant Washburn, Essanay star, photographed with his grandmother, his father and his son. All 'Bryant Was... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Essanay silent film star Bryant Washburn in U.S. Army sergeant's uniform sits on the grass with his little son Bryant Washburn, Jr., and his wife, the actr... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Silent film star Claire Windsor in a lacy summer dress and sun hat with her small son Billy outdoors. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Silent film star Claire Windsor in a lacy summer dress and sun hat sits on the grass with her small son Billy. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | The actor Edward M. Kimball, wearing pince-nez, reads a script to his daughter, the silent film star Clara Kimball Young. She is on a chaise lounge with a ... |
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