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Covered Wagon in "Romance of the Reaper"

Date: 1929
Description: A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper." The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape...
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Covered Wagon in "Romance of the Reaper"

Date: 1929
Description: A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper." The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape...
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Two Men and a Woman Dressed for "Romance of the Reaper"

Date: 1929
Description: A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper." The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape...
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Film Still of Actress Josie Sedgwick from "The Boss of the Lazy 'Y'"

Date: 1918
Description: Actress Josie Sedgwick plays Betty Clayton in this western. Betty is in charge of the Lazy Y ranch, and her young brother Bobby lives with her. Her grandfa...
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Film Still of Actress Josie Sedgwick from "The Boss of the Lazy 'Y'"

Date: 1918
Description: Actress Josie Sedgwick as Betty Clayton runs the Lazy Y ranch for Calumet Marston, who is in a feud with Neal Taggart and his father Tom. Betty is with two...
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Film Still from "The Boss of the Lazy 'Y'"

Date: 1918
Description: Actress Josie Sedgwick as Betty Clayton and six other men, some with guns, holed up in a ranch house, shooting toward a window. One of the men stands with ...
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Film Still from "The Boss of the Lazy 'Y'"

Date: 1918
Description: Group of four men and one woman outdoors at a ranch setting. One man has blood from a likely gunshot wound on his forearm.
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"Sylvia of the Secret Service" Movie Still

Date: 1917
Description: Still from the 1917 Pathé movie "Sylvia of the Secret Service," featuring Irene Castle (playing Sylvia Carroll), surprising a safecracker.
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"Sylvia of the Secret Service" Movie Still

Date: 1917
Description: Still from the 1917 Pathé movie "Sylvia of the Secret Service," featuring Irene Castle (playing Sylvia Carroll), captured by the villains.
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After a Fight, Scene Still from "Zudora"

Date: 1914
Description: Actor Harry Benham points accusingly at a ruffian on the floor as two police officers subdue two criminals in a scene still from the Thanhouser serial "Zud...
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Hands Up in a Scene Still from "Zudora"

Date: 1914
Description: Actor Harry Benham covers two ruffians with two pistols as Marguerite Snow ministers to an insensible young man on the floor in a scene still from the Than...
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Maurice Lefty Flynn and Dorothy Dalton

Date: 1922
Description: Iris Champneys (played by Dorothy Dalton) holds a revolver on Jock MacKeinney (Maurice "Lefty" Flynn) in a publicity still from "The Woman Who Walked Alone...
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Agnes Vernon and William Desmond in a scene still for "Bare-Fisted Gallagher"

Date: 1919
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...
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Publicity Still from "The Cool World"

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Description: A publicity still from the film "The Cool World" showing an African American teenage boy holding and pointing a gun. An African American teenage girl is st...
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Cast of Play

Date: 1905
Description: Eleven young men and women in costume, including two men in military uniform, are posing for a cast portrait on a small stage. There is patriotic bunting h...
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Tableau

Date: 1905
Description: Three young women and five young men, three of whom are in military uniform, are posing in a scene from a play. There is patriotic bunting hanging from the...
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Norma Talmadge and Eugene O'Brien in "The Ghosts of Yesterday"

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Description: Norma Talmadge, as Ruth Graham, grabs the arm of Howard Marston, played by Eugene O'Brien, in the 1918 film "The Ghosts of Yesterday". She looks up at him...

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