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| Date: | 12 28 1923 |
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| Description: | Likely a 1923 Goldwyn production Red Lights publicity portrait of Dagmar Godowsky wearing a beaded headdress. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Scene still from The Twins of Suffering Creek a western starring William Russell. He is posed with Malcolm Cripe and Helen Stone as the twins (Fox 1... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | William Farnum and a little girl in a scene still from "Last of the Duanes," a silent film based upon a Zane Grey story (Fox, 1919). |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Tom Donaldson (played by John Bowers) is dressing with the help of his wife Grace (Louise Lovely) in a scene still from "The Poverty of Riches" (Goldwyn 19... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Publicity portrait of Valda Valkyrien, known as "The Movie Star of Denmark." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Publicity still from the silent film The Birth of a Nation of Mae Marsh with her hands held to her face. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A dramatic publicity still of Walter Long from the film Birth of a Nation. Long played Gus, a "renegrade negro," in blackface. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Theda Bara, stands and rests an arm against a pillar with one hand on the back of a chair, in a production still from the 1917 Fox production of Cleopat... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | The tramp (played by Charlie Chaplin) and the kid (Jackie Coogan) peer around a wall with the police officer (Tom Wilson) standing behind them, from The... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Samuel Goldwyn and (the second) Mrs. Goldwyn (nee Frances Howard) after their marriage in Jersey City. Photo by Ira L. Hill's Studio. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Sessue Hayakawa sits in a chair with his fist raised in a publicity still for "His Birthright" (Haworth 1918). |
| Date: | 06 30 1921 |
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| Description: | Over-the-shoulder portrait of the writer Anita Loos made by Charles James Fox in New York. With her bobbed hair and sharp sense of humor, Loos was the epit... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | The writer Anita Loos and the director John Emerson looking over a script on a film set. Emerson has a pince-nez on a cord and sits in a director's chair. ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | The actors, cameraman, and director discuss the script on location for the silent film "Sunshine Alley" (Goldwyn, 1917). On the right is a Bell & Howell mo... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Kitty Gordon and two dogs in a sunroom. The star of musical comedy, vaudeville, and silent films, Kitty Gordon, and two dogs, wolfhounds or deerhounds. ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "It's Blanche Sweet's own dog, but a neighbor's child." |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | The actress Norma Talmadge is posed outdoors in an athletic outfit, black bloomers with white tassels, holding her Pomeranian dog "Dinky." Next to her is h... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Marshall Neilan, the director of Don't Ever Marry (1920), and Marjorie Daw, the female lead. Original caption: "NIX ON THE FANCY FOOD, SAYS MARSHA... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Full-length publicity portrait of Leonore Ulric who played Alona in "Her Own People." |
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