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| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A young woman poses seated in front of a painted forest backdrop. She wears wings and is wrapped in a diaphanous material. On the left on the ground is a s... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Lillie Langtry is in character as the adventuress Lena Despard from the play "As in a Looking-Glass." In this full-length portrait, she is seated, facing ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Elsie Janis who with Montgomery and Stone will open in the new musical comedy 'The Lady of the Slipper'..." |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Irene Castle in a gauzy tulle and satin dress in a full-length pose in a publicity photograph for the silent film "Patria" (International 1917). |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Publicity photo of Joel McCrea and Laraine Day for the film "Foreign Correspondent." McCrea wears a suit and sits with his arms around his legs. Day wears ... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Full face, quarter-length studio portrait of the actress Marion Davies used to promote the 1922 silent drama "Beauty's Worth." She wears several strands of... |
| Date: | 04 21 1876 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Lina Martin, in costume as Marguerite from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play Faust. |
| Date: | 04 21 1876 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Jim [James] Whaling, Frank Cramer, and Lina Martin in costume as Mephistopheles, Faust, and Marguerite from Johann Wolfgang von... |
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| Description: | Seated carte-de-visite portrait of American stage actress Maude Adams. She is resting her arms on the chair back and is holding a mask in her hand. She is ... |
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