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| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Scene still with Marshall Neilan, in white shirt, and Ruth Roland in a room crowded with police officers from one of the many silent films they made for Ka... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Silent film star Robert Warwick in heavy fur coat and hat leaning over the engine of a Stutz Bearcat roadster. Original caption: "D--n that carburetor.... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini in a scene from the silent motion picture, "The Grim Game." |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Bruce McLean (played by Forrest Stanley) has been captured by the Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Pacheco (Howard Davies) and his followers. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Florrie Ricks (played by Agnes Ayres), the daughter of a shipowner, attends to Matt Peasley (Thomas Meighan), a seaman who lies unconscious in her lap in a... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Two seamen, Matt Peasley (played by Thomas Meighan) and Murphy (Hugh Cameron), stand in a San Francisco street with their seabags at their feet in a public... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Shipowner Cappy Ricks (played by Charles Abbe) and seamen Matt Peasley (Thomas Meighan) and Ole Peterson (Ivan Linow) onboard a ship in a publicity still f... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | The wealthy playboy Jack Henderson (played by Owen Moore) has accidentally shot Mercy Baxter (Mary Pickford) in the arm and has carried her to her home in ... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Edith Henderson (played by Boots Wall) has her eyes covered by two young men as Jack Henderson (Owen Moore) kisses Mercy Baxter (Mary Pickford) on a bench ... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Pausing by the door of his mountain cabin, Jim Baxter (played by Ogden Crane) notices that his daughter Mercy (Mary Pickford) and the wealthy visitor from ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Florence Lawrence watches as a young man with bandaged hands and face is transferred by two orderlies from a gurney onto a hospital bed. Also visible in th... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Henry Peck, the "bad boy" of the title played by Jackie Coogan, and Dr. Martin (played by Wheeler Oakman) are on a railroad velocipede handcar staring at w... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Henry Peck, the "bad boy" played by Jackie Coogan, is caught with his hand in the apple barrel by a police officer in this scene still from the silent film... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Henry Peck (played by Jackie Coogan) has been caught in a net by the dog catcher in this scene still from the silent film "Peck's Bad Boy" (First National ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Romola (played by Lillian Gish) and Tito Melema (William Powell) standing before the altar during their wedding in a scene still for Henry King's productio... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Justine Spotiswood (played by Irene Castle wearing a turban with feathers) and Cosmo Spotiswood (William P. Carleton) gaze into each others eyes in a scene... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Cosmo Spotiswood (played by William P. Carleton on the right) confronts a man who has designs on his wife Justine (played by Irene Castle). Castle is dress... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | The famous German actor Emil Jannings is on the roof of his California home posing on a rowing machine. The original caption stamped on the back of the pri... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Paramount Pictures studio portrait of Emil Jannings in coat and tie with a cigar in his mouth. |
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