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Bert Williams

Date: 1921
Description: White Studio portrait of vaudevillian Bert Williams.
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Scene Still from The Jazz Singer

Date: 1927
Description: A still from the film The Jazz Singer showing Eugenie Besserer, Al Jolson, and Warner Oland (Warner 1927).
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Scene Still from "The Blot"

Date: 1921
Description: Louis Calhern and Claire Windsor in "The Blot" (Lois Weber Productions).
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Scene still from The Blot

Date: 1921
Description: Publicity still from The Blot. Louis Calhern with flowers at the front door with Margaret McWade. (Lois Weber Productions, 1921).
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Scene Still from The Fighting Blade

Date: 1923
Description: A scene still from The Fighting Blade with Richard Barthelmess and Dorothy Mackaill in the foreground and two helmeted guardsmen behind them.
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Scene Still from The Fighting Blade

Date: 1923
Description: Scene still from The Fighting Blade showing Richard Barthelmess with his arm around Dorothy Mackaill (Inspiration 1923).
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Houdini, Harry

Date: 
Description: Harry Houdini in chains and ropes. He is tied to a wheel on a locomotive.
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"Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye"

Date: 1950
Description: Scene still from "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye."
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Don Ameche and His Junior Basketball Team

Date: 1920
Description: Don Ameche poses with his junior basketball team at Franklin School. He was ten-years-old and captain of the team.
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Jack Carson

Date: 1920
Description: Jack Carson at the age of ten posing on front steps wearing a hat and leaning on a walking cane.
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Fred MacMurray as a Boy

Date: 1915
Description: Fred MacMurray, on the right, as a young boy outdoors in winter with his friend Randall McKinstry.
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Spencer Tracy in Sailor Hat

Date: 1918
Description: Double head and shoulders shot of Spencer Tracy in a sailor hat, from when he was in the Navy in the last days of World War I.
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Orson Welles

Date: 1975
Description: A classic Orson Welles publicity still showing him looking intensely into the camera while gesturing with his hands.
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Gene Wilder

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Description: Gene Wilder looking through the lens of a movie camera.
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Fredric March as a Child

Date: 1900
Description: A photograph of Fredric March as a child (on the right) performing in a church pageant with another child.
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Frederic March on Fraternity House Steps

Date: 1920
Description: Frederic March as Freddy Bickel, photographed on the steps of his fraternity house when he was president of the 1920 senior class.
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Frederic March Shoveling Snow

Date: 1920
Description: Winter scene with Frederic March as a young man in a coat and hat, outdoors shoveling snow.
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Scene Still from The Twins of Suffering Creek

Date: 1920
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...
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Hale Hamilton and Louise Lovely in "Johnny on the Spot"

Date: 1919
Description: Scene still from "Johnny on the Spot" with Hale Hamilton and Louise Lovely (Metro, 1919).
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William Farnum in "Last of the Duanes"

Date: 1919
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).

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