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| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Bare-fisted Gallagher (played by William Desmond) stands in full Western costume (cowboy hat, plaid shirt, bandana neckerchief, charro chaps, leather wrist... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Wearing men's western clothing Jem Mason (played by Agnes Vernon) looks doubtfully at Bare Fisted Gallagher (William Desmond). She holds a Winchester repea... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Full face, quarter-length studio portrait of the actress Marion Davies used to promote the 1922 silent drama "Beauty's Worth." She wears several strands of... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Left profile studio portrait of the actress Marion Davies used to promote the 1922 silent drama "Beauty's Worth." She wears strands of pearls and a pearl a... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Sessue Hayakawa poses in the role of the Prince of the Island of Desire in a 3/4 length seated portrait for the 1920 silent fantasy film "The Beggar Prince... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | In this scene still for the silent drama "The Beggar Prince, the Prince of the Island of Desire (played by Sessue Hayakawa) and Olala (Beatrice LaPlante) w... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | In a scene still for the silent drama "Behind the Door," American Merchant Marine Captain Oscar Krug (played by Hobart Bosworth) holds a straight razor in ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Wallace Reid, wearing jodhpurs and a work shirt, stands in a sherrif's office with a ball and chain attached to his ankle. Behind him is a rolltop desk and... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | In this publicity still for the 1918 Fox silent drama "The She-Devil," Theda Bara poses outdoors with cherries hanging from her lips and four giant pom-pom... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Fox silent film star Charles Jones, later known as Buck Jones, poses outdoors in a cowboy hat in a publicity still for the 1922 silent western "Bells of Sa... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | In a publicity still for the Lubin silent film series "The Beloved Adventurer," Lottie Briscoe wears a corduroy western dress, boots, and a cowboy hat. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Louie Vanderiff (played by Clarence Kolb at left) and Mike Amsterdammer (Max Dill) pose in street clothes in a scene still for the 1917 silent comedy "Belo... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Lolette, the Spanish peasant girl (played by Theda Bara) uses a knife to defend herself from a middle aged man in a scene still for the silent drama "The S... |
| 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: | 1919 |
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| Description: | In a scruffy flower garden, Peter Van Alstyne (played by David Butler) and Nancy Scroggs (Zasu Pitts) cast loving eyes at each other while Nancy's father E... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | The banker J. Peter Weathersby (played by Louis Haines grinning with a cigar in his hand) sits beside Sally Marrio (Pearl White) who is delivering a pair o... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Pearl White, in character as Sally Marrio, wears a chinchilla coat in a publicity still for the silent melodrama "Beyond Price." |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Lord Hector Bracondale (played by Rudolph Valentino) sits in a reverie at a piano as a butler delivers a letter on a salver in a scene still for the silent... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Gloria Swanson, as Theodora Fitzgerald, and Rudolph Valentino, as Lord Hector Bracondale, in a full-length seated Keyes studio publicity still for the 1922... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Mabel Van Buren (as Mrs. McBride) and Rudolf Valentino (Lord Hector Bracondale) sit side by side in a scene still for the silent drama "Beyond the Rocks." |
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