
Johanny Piccaver, 1917

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Karl Struss :: Female Nude in profile [from the portfolio, ‘The Female Figure’], 1917.
| src Christie’s
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Karl Struss :: Female Nude in profile [from the portfolio, ‘The Female Figure’], 1917. | src Christie’s
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Dancers performing in Salomé, 1917. Cubo-futurist design for the Kamerny Theatre by
(or Ekster). | src
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Elinor Field, Phyllis Haver, Marvel Rea, Vera Steadman, Mack Swain, and Gloria Swanson in The Pullman Bride (Paramount Pictures, 1917) src IMDb

“Valeska Suratt wears a spider dress and on her head is a webbed hat, proof positive that she is a vamp.” Quoted from source.
Publicity Still of Valeska Suratt as Zena, the temptress, in the 1917 silent drama film
The New York Peacock (Fox Films). /
source: Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
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Stage, silent era actress and vamp Valeska Suratt, in a tall dark hat, stares intensely at the camera while holding a vase against her cheek, 1917 (Fox Film publicity photograph) /
source: Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
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