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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of two young Ho-Chunk women posing standing in front of a painted backdrop. They are wearing contemporary dark skirts and light blouses. Id... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Copy negative from William J. Meuer Albums of Kate Whitney and Forrest Anderson ice skating. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Three children peek out of the door of a log cabin. There is an ash can to the right of the door. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Outdoor portrait of three girls dressed as Red Cross nurses and a boy with a bandage on his head. One girl holds a U.S. flag. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of six men on the shore of a river, with piles of clam shells inside loose wooden fences near a pile of firewood and an axe. The firewood may... |
| 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: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Art Acord as the Egyptian Kephren from the 1917 Fox production of Cleopatra. |
| 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: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Lorelei (played by Louise Lovely) playfully threatens Julie (Carmel Meyers) with a handful of seaweed as a group of sirens look on in the 1917 Universal pr... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Portrait photograph of Richard Barthelmess. On the back is stamped: Marguerite Clark in "Bab's Burglar" a Parmount Picture. Barthelmess appeared in tha... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A water-damaged, thoroughly-retouched publicity still of Richard Barthelmess sitting at a writing desk. It apparently appeared in "Photoplay Magazine" some... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | The actor Lionel Barrymore in a studio portrait by Herman Miskin of New York. His arms are crossed, and he wears a pinstriped suit. A caption pasted on ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Valeska Suratt wears a spider dress and on her head is a webbed hat, proof positive that she is a vamp. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Valeska Suratt, in a tall dark hat, stares intensely at the camera while holding a vase against her cheek. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Billie Burke wearing fashionable sportswear (a matching set of bloomers, leggings, and cap) points a Kodak roll film camera at the photographer. She stands... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Snapshot of J. Searle Dawley, Walter Hiers, and Billie Burke riding on top of a New York bus. Dawley is on the far left. Hiers sits next to Burke. An unkno... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Silent film actress Vola Vale wearing a polka dot dress and dark straw hat in a portrait by the Hartsook Studio. She inscribed it to the editor and publish... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length portrait of Vola Vale, silent film actress who was a leading ingenue for the Balboa Amusement Producing Company. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Valda Valkyrien wears a flowing white robe, probably in the role of Ashubetis on the Jacksonville, Florida, set of the 1917 Thanhouser production The Im... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Valda Valkyrien wears a very smart vertically striped dress under a dark double-breasted jacket. Apparently she has just caught a shark on a Florida beach.... |
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