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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A dramatic publicity still of Walter Long from the film Birth of a Nation. Long played Gus, a "renegrade negro," in blackface. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Art Acord as the Egyptian Kephren from the 1917 Fox production of Cleopatra. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | The Man (George O'Brien) suffers with guilt as he remembers his wedding vows, while the Wife (Janet Gaynor) comforts him, in a scene still from "Sunrise: A... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | The Wife (Janet Gaynor) flees from the Man (George O'Brien) after he has tried to kill her, in Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (Fox, 1927). |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | The Woman from the City (Margaret Livingston) urges the Man (George O'Brien) to kill his wife so he can run away to the city with her, in Sunrise: A Son... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio publicity still of Richard Barthelmess as David Kinemon in Tol'able David (First National 1921). He is barefoot, wears rough clot... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | The characters Lorna Barton (played by Ethel Grandin) and Bill Bradshaw (William Cavanaugh) in a cafe scene from Traffic in Souls (1913, IMP). |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | The tramp (played by Charlie Chaplin) and the kid (Jackie Coogan) peer around a wall with the police officer (Tom Wilson) standing behind them, from The... |
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| Description: | Undated portrait of Roscoe Arbuckle, autographed as follows: Very Truly Yours, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle P.S. TO HELL WITH THE KAISER. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Publicity still of Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres in The Sheik. (Paramount 1921). |
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| Description: | Publicity portrait of Karl Dane standing in what looks like a home. |
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| Description: | Publicity still of Karl Dane in western wear posing with an African-American woman and her two children. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Dramatic publicity still of Fannie Ward (playing Edith Hardy) and Sessue Hayakawa (as Hishuru Tori) in "The Cheat" (Lasky, 1915). Original caption: "Edith ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Sessue Hayakawa sits in a chair with his fist raised in a publicity still for "His Birthright" (Haworth 1918). |
| 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: | 04 20 1922 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Does Dick Barthelmess read 'fan' letters? We'll say he does. The photographer caught him on his porch opening his mail, while waiting f... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Backlit publicity still of Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, and Dorothy Gish. |
| 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: | 11 05 1923 |
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| Description: | Inspiration Pictures publicity photograph of the Gish sisters and Richard Barthelemess on board a ship. Original caption: AT THE PARTING OF THE WAYS L... |
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