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Hughes' Air Victory

Date: 07 14 1938
Description: Minutes after finishing their record-breaking flight around the world (in 7 hours and 28 minutes), Howard Hughes and the four aviators who flew with him we...
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Pearl White, Ralph Kellard, and Marie Wayne in "Pearl of the Army"

Date: 1916
Description: Pearl Date (played by Pearl White) threatens Captain Ralph Payne (Ralph Kellard) with a piece of firewood as he struggles with Bertha Bonn (Marie Wayne) fo...
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"The Broken Coin" Scene Still

Date: 1915
Description: Kitty Gray (played by Grace Cunard) and Count Frederick (played by Francis Ford) stand in a dungeon and stare off-camera in horror in a scene still from Ep...
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Ethel Grandin and Others in "Across the Plains"

Date: 1912
Description: Three or more pioneer women and an older man in buckskin look in horror at a threat--indians?--that is beyond the frame of the photograph in this scene sti...
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"Sylvia of the Secret Service" Movie Still

Date: 1917
Description: Still from the 1917 Pathé movie "Sylvia of the Secret Service," featuring Irene Castle (playing Sylvia Carroll), captured by the villains.
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Scene still from "The Broken Coin"

Date: 1915
Description: Kitty Gray (played by Grace Cunard) holds a knife and struggles with a ruffian, while behind them two men fight on the floor and a third escapes out the wi...
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Scene still from "The Broken Coin"

Date: 1915
Description: Grace Cunard (playing Kitty Grey) slips a note to Harry Mann as he examines a book with Francis Ford (playing Count Frederick) in a scene still from the Un...
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Keystone Film Company Pool

Date: 1915
Description: Production still of the Keystone pool. On the far left is Mack Sennett, coatless, in derby and suspenders. On the far right is Adam Kessel, coatless, in a ...
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Universal Studios Grand Opening

Date: 03 15 1915
Description: Gathered for the grand opening of Universal City are the general manager of the Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Isadore Bernstein (in a white belted ...
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Universal Studios Grand Opening

Date: 03 15 1915
Description: At the grand opening of Universal City are the general manager of the Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Isadore Bernstein (in a white belted Norfolk su...
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Clara Kimball Young and Edwin August

Date: 1916
Description: Sonia Sokoloff (played by Clara Kimball Young) in a flowing white gown is seated while Adolph Rosenheimer (Edwin August) is on one knee hanging onto the ar...
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Enid Markey and Willard Mack Scene Still

Date: 1915
Description: Enid Markey, in a grass skirt, plays Kalaniweo, the Polynesian chief's daughter. Embracing her is Willard Mack playing David Harmon, a shipwrecked lawyer i...
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Scene Still with Frank Mayo, Mary MacLaren and Stanhope Wheatcroft

Date: 1919
Description: In a scene still from "The Amazing Wife," U.S. Army Lieutenant John Ashton (played by Frank Mayo) clinches his fist and glares at his cousin Philip Ashton ...
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Mary MacLaren and Stanhope Wheaton Scene Still

Date: 1919
Description: In a scene still from "The Amazing Wife," Cicely Osborne (played by Mary MacLaren) seems disturbed by Philip Ashton (Stanhope Wheaton) who leans over her s...
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Audrey and Richard Ircink

Date: 12 31 1982
Description: Portrait of a woman and man sitting next to each other. The woman is wearing a fur-lined coat and the man is wearing a corduroy jacket. Caption reads: "...

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