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| Date: | 08 21 1917 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "The above picture is the first that has been taken of Mrs. Vernon Castle and her soldier husband since he returned to this country aft... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the motion picture, "The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle" (RKO, 1939). Although Astaire and Rogers were ideally cast to... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Publicity shot for "Flying Fleet," an MGM motion picture release starring Ramon Navarro and Anita Paige. The Navy aircraft on which the actors are posed is... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Spencer Tracy in "Sky Devils," Howard Hughes's silly World War I comedy. Tracy (center) and William Boyd play two inept stowaways who end up on a ship that... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Jimmy Cagney, Pat O'Brien, and Margaret Lindsay in a publicity still from "Devil Dogs of the Air" (WB, 1935). In this production Cagney and O'Brien play tw... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Pearl White stands in front of a painted studio background, sword in hand, wearing the female version of a U.S. Army cavalry uniform. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | William Clifford and Ethel Grandin in 1860s or 1870s period costume. They are apparently being guarded by two U.S. Army soldiers in this scene still for "A... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Larry Young (played by Wallace Reid in the uniform of a sergeant in the Canadian army) embraces Elaine Debaux (Ann Little in a nurse's cape) in a scene sti... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Still from the 1917 Pathé movie "Sylvia of the Secret Service," featuring Irene Castle (playing Sylvia Carroll), surprising a safecracker. |
| Date: | 09 23 1959 |
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| Description: | William Lundigan, as Colonel Ed McCauley, stands next to Fred Beir, who played Lt. Art Frey, and Nan Peterson, who appeared as Ann Hammond on an episode of... |
| Date: | 05 1919 |
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| Description: | "For months Miss Storey has been driving a war ambulance in the streets of New York--a work no less valuable than handling one behind the Flanders lines. A... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Lieutenant Eric Burgess, a U.S. Army aviator played by Harrison Ford, sits on the edge of a well with Marty Mackenzie (Vivian Martin) in a scene still from... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Prince Michael Orbeliana (played by Lou Tellegen in an aristocratic white military uniform) visits the opera singer Marcia Warren (Geraldine Farrar wearing... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | In a publicity still from "The Wonderman," Henri D'Alour (played by Georges Carpentier, the French boxer, aviator, and actor) stands grinning over the shou... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | In a scene still from "The Amazing Wife," U.S. Army Lieutenant John Ashton (played by Frank Mayo) clinches his fist and glares at his cousin Philip Ashton ... |
| 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: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Harrison (played by Mary Maurice) solemnly presents the family sword to her son John Harrison (Charles Richman, on the left) in a scene still for the ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | After the invasion of the United States, Americans are threatened by the enemy leader Mr. Emanon (played by L. Rodgers Lytton in profile at far right) and ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | George Washington's aide Joseph Ashburn (played by John Bowers in Revolutionary War uniform) confronts Clarence Vernon (Frank Mayo) who has been hiding in ... |
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