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| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Louis Calhern and Claire Windsor in "The Blot" (Lois Weber Productions). |
| Date: | 12 28 1923 |
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| Description: | Likely a 1923 Goldwyn production Red Lights publicity portrait of Dagmar Godowsky wearing a beaded headdress. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A scene still from The Fighting Blade with Richard Barthelmess and Dorothy Mackaill in the foreground and two helmeted guardsmen behind them. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Scene still from "Johnny on the Spot" with Hale Hamilton and Louise Lovely (Metro, 1919). |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| 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). |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Jack Mulhall and Louise Lovely meet on a beach surrounded by young women wearing bathing costumes composed mostly of seaweed in "Sirens of the Sea" (Univer... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | A crowded scene still from "Intolerance": Christ at the wedding at Cana with Howard Gaye as Christ, and with Bessie Love and George Walsh as the bride and ... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Betty Blythe as the Queen of Sheba and Fritz Leiber as King Solomon in a still from "The Queen of Sheba," a silent William Fox mega-production of 1921. The... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Betty Blythe as the Queen of Sheba and Fritz Leiber as King Solomon stand before their thrones and face one another with attendants in the background. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Donald Crisp, aviator Glenn Martin, and Mary Pickford in the 1915 silent comedy A Girl of Yesterday (Famous Players-Lasky, 1915). Martin is wearing ... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | "Air Circus" (Fox 1928) is the story of two flight school cadets (only David Rollins is pictured) and an accomplished aviatrix, Sue Carol, who can fly ring... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Robbers, guns drawn, escort the engineer from the locomotive in a scene from The Great Train Robbery. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | The huge waiter (played by Eric Campbell) glowers at the immigrant (Charlie Chaplin). To the right are Edna Purviance playing another immigrant and Henry B... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Syd Chaplin at the periscope in a scene still from A Submarine Pirate (Keystone). |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Gloria Swanson and Bobby Vernon in a scene from "Haystacks and Steeples". |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Rudolph Valentino puts his arm around Rosa Rosanova in a publicity still for the silent drama Blood and Sand. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Publicity still from the silent film The Birth of a Nation of Mae Marsh with her hands held to her face. |
| 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: | Theda Bara, stands and rests an arm against a pillar with one hand on the back of a chair, in a production still from the 1917 Fox production of Cleopat... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Art Acord as the Egyptian Kephren from the 1917 Fox production of Cleopatra. |
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