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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Silent film star Pearl White behind the wheel of a 1915 Stutz Bearcat roadster with journalist George Vaux Bacon sitting beside her. The photograph was mad... |
| Date: | 09 1918 |
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| Description: | Silent film actor Niles Welch on the ground underneath the front of a 1918 Hudson Super Six touring limousine. Apparently he is using a carpenter's brace d... |
| Date: | 09 1918 |
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| Description: | Silent film actor Niles Welch is apparently using a wood saw on the engine of a 1918 Hudson Super Six touring limousine. Other carpenter's tools--a plane a... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini in a scene from the silent motion picture, "The Grim Game." |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | In the foreground Ethel Grandin and Francis Ford embrace at the foot of a grave. Behind them are three covered wagons, numerous men and women on horseback,... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A man and woman look out of a window at people picking cotton in a field. The two are well-dressed. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Bare-fisted Gallagher (played by William Desmond) stands in full Western costume (cowboy hat, plaid shirt, bandana neckerchief, charro chaps, leather wrist... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Wearing men's western clothing Jem Mason (played by Agnes Vernon) looks doubtfully at Bare Fisted Gallagher (William Desmond). She holds a Winchester repea... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Actress Anna Luther peeps over the top of a dressing screen at the back of a bathroom set at the Keystone Studios in a production still for the 1916 short ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Mildred Manning (played by Anna Luther) kisses ranch owner Del Burton (George Walsh) in a scene still for "The Beast" (Fox 1916). |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Ben Blair (played by Dustin Farnum in cowboy costume) has a picnic on the ground with Florence Winthrop (Winifred Kingston, wearing a corduroy riding suit)... |
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