
Howard C. Cloyes :: The Wind (Wanda Grazer). Published in the magazine Shadowland, issue of Jan. 1923. / src: Library of Congress: Moving Image Section
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Howard C. Cloyes :: The Wind (Wanda Grazer). Published in the magazine Shadowland, issue of Jan. 1923. / src: Library of Congress: Moving Image Section

James Wallace Pondelicek :: Untitled.
Published in the magazine Shadowland, issue of Jan. 1923. / src: Library of Congress: Moving Image Section


Edmund Osterloff :: ‘Miss Curiosity’ (Osterloff’s daughter Sophie Osterloff, married Lazutina), Tbilisi, Russia, ca.1908 / source: Jan
Weijers Servatius

“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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Underwood & Underwood :: Publicity still of Valeska Suratt wearing a hat composed mostly of wires, ca. 1916. A stamp on the back of the print reads: “William Fox presents Valeska Suratt in photo plays supreme released through Fox Film Corporation”. /
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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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A man holding a rubber crocodile made by Clifford Martin Ltd for the British Industries Fair, 1935. © Fox Photos | Hulton Archive | src: Getty Images
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Édouard Baldus (French, born Prussia, 1813–1889) :: Le Moine, ca. 1861. Albumen silver print from paper negative. | source: The Met