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Mary MacLaren

Date: 1916
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Mary MacLaren young star of "Bluebird Photoplays."
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Mary MacLaren

Date: 07 21 1916
Description: Studio portrait of Mary MacLaren, Bluebird Photoplays star, in a formal dress leaning on a chair.
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Fred MacMurray as a Boy

Date: 1915
Description: Fred MacMurray, on the right, as a young boy outdoors in winter with his friend Randall McKinstry.
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Spencer Tracy in Sailor Hat

Date: 1918
Description: Double head and shoulders shot of Spencer Tracy in a sailor hat, from when he was in the Navy in the last days of World War I.
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Hale Hamilton and Louise Lovely in "Johnny on the Spot"

Date: 1919
Description: Scene still from "Johnny on the Spot" with Hale Hamilton and Louise Lovely (Metro, 1919).
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William Farnum in "Last of the Duanes"

Date: 1919
Description: William Farnum and a little girl in a scene still from "Last of the Duanes," a silent film based upon a Zane Grey story (Fox, 1919).
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"Sirens of the Sea" Scene Still

Date: 1917
Description: Jack Mulhall and Louise Lovely meet on a beach surrounded by young women wearing bathing costumes composed mostly of seaweed in "Sirens of the Sea" (Univer...
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The Wedding at Cana, a Scene From "Intolerance"

Date: 1916
Description: A crowded scene still from "Intolerance": Christ at the wedding at Cana with Howard Gaye as Christ, and with Bessie Love and George Walsh as the bride and ...
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"The Cheat"

Date: 1915
Description: A scene still from "The Cheat" (Lasky, 1915) showing Hishuru Tori, played by Sessue Hayakawa, preparing to brand Edith Hardy (Fannie Ward) on the back of h...
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Florence Lawrence in dressing room

Date: 1914
Description: Actress Florence Lawrence seated at the vanity mirror in her dressing room wearing a white satin dressing gown and night cap.
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Valda Valkyrien

Date: 1916
Description: Publicity portrait of Valda Valkyrien, known as "The Movie Star of Denmark."
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Ziegfield Follies

Date: 1912
Description: Bert Williams (right) and Leon Errol (left) are a cabbie and his fare from the 1912 Ziegfield Follies. The cab is drawn by a rumpled pantomime horse. Behin...
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Scene Still from A Girl of Yesterday

Date: 1915
Description: Donald Crisp, aviator Glenn Martin, and Mary Pickford in the 1915 silent comedy A Girl of Yesterday (Famous Players-Lasky, 1915). Martin is wearing ...
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Irene Castle and Vernon Castle in Uniform with German Shepherd Dog

Date: 08 21 1917
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...

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Irene Castle in Uniform

Date: 1917
Description: The glamorous dancer Irene Castle wearing a World War I "Preparedness Uniform" of her own design. The dress was based on the uniform worn by her husband an...
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Vernon Castle and his Monkey Jeffrey

Date: 1918
Description: Vernon Castle, half of the glamorous Castle dancing team, enlisted in the British Royal Flying Corps in 1915 and flew over 150 missions at the Western Fron...
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Production Still from The Immigrant

Date: 1917
Description: The huge waiter (played by Eric Campbell) glowers at the immigrant (Charlie Chaplin). To the right are Edna Purviance playing another immigrant and Henry B...
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Ice Harvesting

Date: 1910
Description: Poling ice blocks to the hoist on the Milwaukee River.
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Mae Marsh Publicity Still for "The Birth of a Nation"

Date: 1915
Description: Publicity still from the silent film The Birth of a Nation of Mae Marsh with her hands held to her face.
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Walter Long

Date: 1915
Description: A dramatic publicity still of Walter Long from the film Birth of a Nation. Long played Gus, a "renegrade negro," in blackface.

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