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Scene Still from A Girl of Yesterday

Date: 1915
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 ...
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Danielle Darrieux and Charles Boyer in Mayerling

Date: 1936
Description: Publicity still of Danielle Darrieux (as Marie Vetsera) and Charles Boyer (Archduke Rudolph of Austria) in Anatole Litvak's Mayerling (1936).
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Gaston Glass in his New Car

Date: 1922
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...
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Mack Sennett Bathing Beauties Posed on an Automobile

Date: 02 1919
Description: Six Mack Sennett bathing beauties wave as they sit on a Willys Six seven-seat touring car. Three of the actresses are tentatively identified as Marie Prevo...
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Houdini in Chains

Date: 1919
Description: Harry Houdini in a scene from the silent motion picture, "The Grim Game."
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Bessie Barriscale, Howard Hickman and Jack Holt Production Still

Date: 1919
Description: This appears to be a "Kitty Kelly, M.D." production still from 1919. If so, the cameraman behind the Bell & Howell model 2709 is probably Eugene Gaudio. Th...
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Conrad Nagel with his Wife and Baby

Date: 1920
Description: Silent film star Conrad Nagel sits on a porch swing with his infant daughter Ruth Margaret Nagel on his knee and his wife Ruth Helms by his side reading a ...
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Mary Pickford and James Kirkwood in a scene still for "Behind the Scenes"

Date: 1914
Description: An aspiring actress, Dolly Lane (played by Mary Pickford) longs for the stage but feels trapped on the farm of her husband Steve Hunter (played by James Ki...
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Shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald

Date: 11 24 1963
Description: Original UPI Wirephoto transmission. Caption reads: "Dallas: This is the complete negative of the dramatic scene captured by Times Herald Staff Photographe...

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