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EXPLORE Mary Pickford

View clips of celebrated silent film star Mary Pickford, see what a 1909 screen test was like, and hear historians discuss Pickford’s on-screen roles and off-screen influence in shaping the first new media of the twentieth century.

EXPLORE other NEH-funded projects

Students from the St. Rita's School for the Deaf, 1918
History Through Deaf Eyes
newspaper mastheads: Eastern Utah Advocate, Abilene Reflector, Richmond Dispatch
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Portraits of Daniel Shays and Job Shattuck, leaders of the "Regulators," 1787
Shays' Rebellion & the Making of a Nation
United States Supreme Court building
The Supreme Court
Rock Island locomotive 627, photograph by William Edward Hook
Railroads and the Making of Modern America
The Buddha's first teaching
The Buddha
Eleanor Roosevelt
The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project
Dolley Madison, by Gilbert Stuart
Dolley Madison