Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | A photograph of Fredric March as a child (on the right) performing in a church pageant with another child. |
Date: | 1904 |
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Description: | Agnes Moorehead as a child, posing with a parasol next to a chair in front of a photographic studio painted backdrop. She is wearing a white dress and has ... |
Date: | 1903 |
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Description: | Agnes Moorehead is shown at about 4 years of age. She wears a white dress stands beside a flowering bush. |
Date: | 1908 |
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Description: | Head and shoulders studio portrait of Florence Lawrence from about the time she joined the Mutoscope and Biograph Company in 1908. She looks up to the left... |
Date: | 1902 |
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Description: | George Walker, Adah Overton Walker, and Bert Williams link arms and dance the cakewalk in the first Broadway musical to be written and performed by African... |
Date: | 1903 |
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Description: | Robbers, guns drawn, escort the engineer from the locomotive in a scene from The Great Train Robbery. |
Date: | 1908 |
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Description: | Original caption: "Mae Murray, who just recently completed 'Circe,' as she looked when she appeared on the stage. Miss Murray started her career as a dance... |
Date: | 1904 |
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Description: | Agnes Moorehead is shown at about 4 years of age sitting in a handsome wicker baby carriage outdoors. |
Date: | 1906 |
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Description: | Richard Barthelmess, the future actor, is about 12-years-old in this studio portrait. He is dressed as a soldier, probably one of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough R... |
Date: | 1906 |
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Description: | Gummo (Milton Marx) on the left and on the right Groucho (Julius Henry Marx) holding a rat terrier dog. Caption from Paramount Pictures, Inc.: "THE BOY... |
Date: | 1907 |
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Description: | Valeska Suratt's early fame was for her elaborate costumes, wasp waist, ample bosom and hips. She appeared in the 1906 musical The Belle of Mayfair ... |
Date: | 1906 |
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Description: | An early waist-up publicity portrait of Valeska Suratt sitting on a chair. She wears an intricate lace dress and a large hat covered with feathers. |
Date: | 1906 |
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Description: | An early full-length publicity portrait of Valeska Suratt in an interesting pose: arms straight out, palms down, as if she were warming by a fire. She wear... |
Date: | 1906 |
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Description: | An early full-length publicity portrait of Valeska Suratt posed in the "Egyptian" style. She wears an intricate dress decorated with metallic ribbons and a... |
Date: | 1909 |
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Description: | Three-quarter length portrait of Billie Burke distributed as publicity for the 1909 Broadway comedy Love Watches. This Sarony Studio portrait is a s... |
Date: | 1901 |
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Description: | The young Italian operatic soprano Lina Cavalieri in suggestive deshabille, her pearl decorated dress falling off her shoulders. |
Date: | 1906 |
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Description: | Mazie Trumbull, famous as a cross-dresser and dancer, and her sister Frances, side by side in a White Studio photograph. |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Comic actor Fred Stone holding the tiller of an early two-seat runabout. The automobile may be a Woods Electric or Woods Dual Power. Stone had been a circu... |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Half-length publicity portrait of Lillie Langtry wearing a dress decorated with a large bat at the neckline. |
Date: | 1908 |
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Description: | Dorothy Jardon in a White Studio publicity photograph for her first Broadway appearance, the musical comedy "The Merry-Go-Round," which opened at the Circl... |
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