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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still - exterior with an actress climbing over a cement or plaster wall. Actor below in foreground has a grip on her left ankle. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still - exterior with two men sitting. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still - exterior with a man standing near a high wall of plaster or cement, holding a large bag of props. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still - interior - group of one actress and three actor standing together; no set beyond carpet on the floor. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still - interior - actress and actor standing together; no set beyond carpet on the floor. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still - interior - actress and actor standing together; no set beyond carpet on the floor. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Film still - interior - actress wrapped as a mummy. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A menacing Sessu Hayakawa looms over a terrified Fannie Ward in a scene from the silent film "The Cheat" (Paramount 1915). In the upper right hand corner, ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Film still of interior scene, exotic atmosphere, with actor and two actresses, one in Indian costume with turban. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Film still of interior scene, exotic atmosphere, with actor and group of actresses, all in Indian costume with turban. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Film still of exterior garden with two actors in Indian costume with turbans in conversation. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Film still of exterior garden with three actors, two in Indian costume with turbans. One actress in Indian costume. One actor in "colonial" costume. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Film still of interior palatial scene with large group of actors and actresses dancing and celebrating in Indian costumes, some with turbans. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Publicity still of William Gillette in costume as Sherlock Holmes for the 1916 Essanay silent film production "Sherlock Holmes," based upon the play Gillet... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Kitty Gray (played by Grace Cunard) holds a knife and struggles with a ruffian, while behind them two men fight on the floor and a third escapes out the wi... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Grace Cunard (playing Kitty Grey) slips a note to Harry Mann as he examines a book with Francis Ford (playing Count Frederick) in a scene still from the Un... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Street scene from the film "The Birth of a Nation" featuring a battle between soldiers on foot and members of the Ku Klux Klan on horseback. The men on hor... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Anita Stewart and her director, Bertram Bracken, taken between filming of scenes at Anita's home." |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Nell Craig playing Princess Vashti in the 1921 Fox production "The Queen of Sheba." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Thomas H. Ince gestures to a cameraman who is moving a Bell & Howell camera on its tripod. Over Ince's shoulder is William S. Hart in costume as a minister... |
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