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Bert Williams

Date: 1921
Description: White Studio portrait of vaudevillian Bert Williams.
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Ziegfield Follies

Date: 1912
Description: Bert Williams (right) and Leon Errol (left) are a cabbie and his fare from the 1912 Ziegfield Follies. The cab is drawn by a rumpled pantomime horse. Behin...
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Scene Still from Their First Mistake

Date: 1932
Description: Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, and Stan Laurel in Their First Mistake (MGM 1932).
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Scene still from Sons of the Desert

Date: 1933
Description: Mae Busch and Oliver Hardy in Sons of the Desert (MGM 1933).
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy

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Description: Undated publicity still of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy at the piano.
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Roscoe Arbuckle

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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.
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Mack Sennett Comedy scene still

Date: 1918
Description: Scene still on the set of a Mack Sennett Comedy, probably Those Athletic Girls of 1918. Louise Fazenda does a Russian dance. To the left of her is P...
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Louise Fazenda

Date: 1918
Description: Publicity still of Louise Fazenda with broom and janitor's hat.
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Louise Fazenda

Date: 1920
Description: Publicity still of Louise Fazenda in her country girl costume holding a chicken, possibly for the 1920 Mack Sennett film Down on the Farm.
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Louise Fazenda

Date: 1920
Description: Publicity still of Louise Fazenda in her country girl costume holding a chicken, possibly for the 1920 Mack Sennett film Down on the Farm.
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Louise Fazenda, Keystone Comedies

Date: 1916
Description: Hand-colored composite publicity portrait of Louise Fazenda surrounded by four of her characters for the Keystone Comedies.
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Louise Fazenda

Date: 1923
Description: Mack Sennett Comedies star Louise Fazenda in a full length publicity still by James Abbe.
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Stanley Holloway and Alec Guiness in The Lavender Hill Mob

Date: 1951
Description: Publicity still of Stanley Holloway (playing Alfred Pendlebury) and Alec Guiness (Henry Holland) contemplating a souvenir Eiffel Tower paperweight in Charl...
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Block and Sully, Vaudeville Team

Date: 1940
Description: Promotional trick photograph of the husband and wife vaudeville team Block and Sully (Jesse Block and Eva Sully). She holds his severed head by the hair, a...
Poster

Poster for Miss Billie Burke in "Jerry"

Date: 1914
Description: Color lithograph poster. The top banner reads "Charles Frohman presents." The image shows Burke in profile, underneath which runs the caption "Miss Billie ...
Poster

Poster for "A Social Session"

Date: 1890
Description: Color lithograph poster. Top caption reads "Social Session" with an insert to the right containing an image of "D. J. Sprague, Manager." The image shows me...
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Keystone Comedy Production Still

Date: 1915
Description: Mack Sennett (in suit and derby) directs Chester Conklin (on his knees) as Ernest B. Schoedsack cranks a Moy & Bastie silent film camera for an unidentifie...
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Keystone Oriental Set Production Still

Date: 1917
Description: Mack Sennett, in a dark suit, and two technicians stand by a Prestwich camera on the set of an unidentified Middle Eastern themed Keystone Comedy. A belly ...
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Keystone Film Company Pool

Date: 1915
Description: Production still of the Keystone pool. On the far left is Mack Sennett, coatless, in derby and suspenders. On the far right is Adam Kessel, coatless, in a ...
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Fred Stone and Family

Date: 1918
Description: The theatrical Stone family at Chin Chin Ranch. From left to right: Allene Crater (Mrs. Fred Stone), Fred Stone, Dorothy Stone, Carol Stone, and Paula Ston...

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