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“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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Olive Ann Alcorn,
American dancer and actress,
with peacock, 1910′s-1920′s / via
elegantcrusadestranger / probably by Alta Studios (Xan Stark)
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Carle Naudo ::
La gardienne de paons /
The peacocks guardian / src: Musée de la Camargue, Arles via

Alfred Cheney Johnston
:: Dolores as The White Peacock in Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic, 1919 / src : NYPL and trialsanderrors
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