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Mabel Trunnelle Holding a Goat

Date: 1917
Description: Mabel Trunnelle, player in Edison Company silent films from 1909, is dressed in a white sailor's suit and straw hat and holds a young goat.
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Lillian Walker holding a French Bulldog

Date: 1918
Description: Silent film actress Lillian Walker, in an elaborate ruffled dress, sits at a window holding a black French bulldog.
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Silent Film Star Bryant Washburn, his Wife, Son, and Boston Bull Terrier

Date: 1918
Description: Original caption: "Mr. and Mrs. Bryant Washburn and Bryant Washburn IVth and his dog 'Kewpie' taken in the garden of their home at 7003 Hawthorne Avenue, ...
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Claire Whitney, a Marmoset, and a White Toy Poodle

Date: 1916
Description: Silent film star Claire Whitney in a seated pose with a marmoset and a white poodle. Original caption: "Miss Claire Whitney's pet marmoset and French p...
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Kathlyn Williams and a White Toy Poodle

Date: 1919
Description: Kathlyn Williams wears a white accordion pleated skirt under a black velvet tunic cut into three large triangular sections at the hem. She has a white fur ...
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Eleanor Woodruff and a Bulldog Puppy

Date: 1916
Description: Vitagraph silent film star Eleanor Woodruff and a bulldog puppy in a White Studio portrait retouched for newspaper use.
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Clara Kimball Young, an Automobile, and a Chow Dog

Date: 1918
Description: The silent film actress Clara Kimball Young, dressed for a drive in a military-styled coat with patch pockets and a dark straw hat, stands beside a car wit...
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Clara Kimball Young Holding a Black Cat

Date: 1915
Description: Heavily retouched seated portrait of the silent film star Clara Kimball Young with a black cat on her lap. Original caption: "Clara Kimball Young who w...
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Marshall Neilan

Date: 1919
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Marshall Neilan, silent film actor and director.
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Marshall Neilan

Date: 1919
Description: Profile portrait of Marshall Neilan, silent film actor and director.
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Marshall Neilan and Marjorie Daw publicity still

Date: 1920
Description: Marshall Neilan, the director of Don't Ever Marry (1920), and Marjorie Daw, the female lead. Original caption: "NIX ON THE FANCY FOOD, SAYS MARSHA...
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Marshall Neilan and Ruth Roland

Date: 1912
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...
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Mack Sennett Bathing Beauties Posed on an Automobile

Date: 02 1919
Description: Six Mack Sennett bathing beauties wave as they sit on a Willys Six seven-seat touring car. Three of the actresses are tentatively identified as Marie Prevo...
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Robert Warwick and a Stutz Bearcat Automobile

Date: 1916
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....
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Robert Warwick and a Stutz Bearcat Automobile

Date: 1916
Description: Silent film star Robert Warwick in heavy fur coat and hat sits in the driver's seat of a Stutz Bearcat roadster for a publicity photograph. Original cap...
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Niles Welch and a Hudson Automobile

Date: 1918
Description: Silent film actor Niles Welch is stepping up onto the running board of a 1918 Hudson Super Six touring limousine. He wears a casual suit with a belted coat...
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Houdini in Chains

Date: 1919
Description: Harry Houdini in a scene from the silent motion picture, "The Grim Game."
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Lenore Ulric and Frank Colvin in "Her Own People" Scene Still

Date: 1916
Description: Leonore Ulric as the American Indian girl Alona, "the half-breed daughter of a wealthy white man" (Moving Picture World 8/19/1916, p. 1268). She is in the ...
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Lenore Ulric in "Her Own People"

Date: 1916
Description: Full-length publicity portrait of Leonore Ulric who played Alona in "Her Own People."
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Lenore Ulric in "The Road to Love"

Date: 1916
Description: In Algiers, Hafsa (played by Lenore Ulric) is on her knees in supplication to her father, Sidi Malik (Herschell Mayall). The caption typed on the back of t...

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