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Fontanne in her Drawing Room

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Description: Lynn Fontanne having breakfast in her drawing room at Ten Chimneys.
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Colleen Moore in "So Big"

Date: 1925
Description: A scene from the film "So Big" in which Jean Hersholt (left), Colleen Moore sitting on couch with a child laying his head in her lap, and Charlotte Merriam...
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Film Still from "The Bride of Hate"

Date: 1917
Description: Film still of a group of people, interior.
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Film Still from "The Bride of Hate"

Date: 1917
Description: Film still of Interior bedroom with young woman in bed being comforted by a servant - a white actress in blackface. ("Black face" is written on the back of...
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Film Still from "The Bride of Hate"

Date: 1917
Description: Film still of two women, one extending her hand to a man, another man is standing by; a female servant in blackface is in the background.
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Film Still from "The Bride of Hate"

Date: 1917
Description: Film still of wedding group.
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Film Still from "The Beckoning Flame"

Date: 1916
Description: Film still of interior scene, exotic atmosphere, with actor and two actresses, one in Indian costume with turban.
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Afternoon Matinee at Home

Date: 10 14 2014
Description: View of the interior of a private home. The foreground is dark, except for the television screen which is showing a woman. The subtitles of the movie read:...
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Photo Enactors from the Dane County Association for Mental Health

Date: 04 16 1957
Description: Staged scenario of a lonely and isolated elderly woman sitting in a rocking chair by a fireplace and spinning wheel. "Aunt Jennie" is portrayed by Margueri...
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Clara Kimball Young in "The Common Law"

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Description: Valerie West (Clara Kimball Young) posing nude for Neville (Conway Tearle) in the 1916 film "The Common Law." Neville is standing on a platform in front of...
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Rod Steiger and Nancy Marchand in Marty

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Description: Rod Steiger and Nancy Marchand sitting at a table and talking in a scene from the television production of "Marty." Both are dressed nicely. The production...
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Scene from "Graustark"

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Description: Prince Gabriel (Marc McDermott) kisses the hand of Princess Yetive (Norma Talmadge) as Dagmar (Wanda Hawley) kneels beside her and looks on in a scene from...
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Scene from "Camille"

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Description: Scene from the 1926 film "Camille" starring Norma Talmadge and Gilbert Roland. Roland sits on a couch and recoils as Talmadge, who is kneeling in front of...
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Norma Talmadge in "The Forbidden City"

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Description: Norma Talmadge, as San San, kneeling next to the body of man, possibly her father, in Chinese clothes in a scene from the 1918 film "The Forbidden City". ...
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Norma Talmadge in "The Forbidden City"

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Description: Norma Talmadge sits and clutches a doll in a publicity photograph for the 1918 film "The Forbidden City." As the character Toy, she is wearing a tradition...
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Scene from "A Dixie Mother"

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Description: A scene from the 1910 film "A Dixie Mother" shows a woman (Florence Turner) holding a sword and looking at her son played by Carlyle Blackwell. He is wear...
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"The Sign on the Door" still

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Description: Norma Talmadge, playing Ann Hunniwell Regan, descends a flight of stairs and sees Frank Devereaux, played by Lew Cody, holding on a to a young woman (possi...
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Helen Ferguson sitting in chair

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Description: Actress Helen Ferguson sits in a large chair with one leg crossed. One hand is curled up against her chest while the other rests on the arm of the chair. ...
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Helen Ferguson and David Butler

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Description: Actress Helen Ferguson and actor David Butler appear in a still from the 1921 film Making the Grade. Ferguson sits next to a table and sews/mends a...
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Helen Ferguson at her desk

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Description: Actress, now press agent, Helen Ferguson sits at her desk and smiles while looking at the camera. She holds a telephone receiver to one ear and holds a pe...

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