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The Sketch, London, February 4, 1925
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The Sketch, London, February 4, 1925
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Venice beach, California, 1936
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The Ogden Standard, Utah, March 1, 1920
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The Washington Times, Washington DC, October 31, 1922
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Boston Post, Massachusetts, March 3, 1921
Marguerite is wearing a “Benda” mask, here’s a couple higher quality images of one:


From Wikipedia: Władysław Teodor “W.T.” Benda (January 15, 1873, Poznań, Poland (Posen, German Empire) – November 30, 1948, Newark, New Jersey, United States) was a Polish painter, illustrator, and designer.
Beginning in 1914, Benda was also an accomplished mask maker and costume designer. His sculpted, papier-mâché face masks were used in plays and dances and often in his own paintings and illustrations. They were used in masques or miracle plays in New York City at venues like the New York Coffee House. Benda also created the masks for stage productions in New York and London for such writers as Eugene O'Neill and Noël Coward. He became so well known as a mask maker that his name became synonymous for any lifelike mask, whether it was of his design or not. Benda also created “grotesque” masks, which were more fantasy or caricature in nature. Benda created the original mask design for the movie The Mask of Fu Manchu, which was originally published as a twelve part serial in Collier’s from May 7, 1932 through July 23, 1932. The cover of the May 7 issue presented a stunning portrait by Benda. In the latter stages of his career, Benda spent less time doing illustration and more time making masks.
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Evansville Press, Indiana, October 23, 1913
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Boston Post, Massachusetts, December 26, 1920
Where Detectives Instead of Thieves Wear Masks.
The masked bandit, train robber, foot pad, et al., is familiar to us in fact and fiction, but the masked detective or police officer is a new one, indeed. This clever idea was adopted by the Los Angeles, Cal., police to prevent alleged crooks and gunmen from identifying plain clothes men while they are engaged in the work of identification themselves.
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The Coffeyville Weekly Journal, Kansas, May 25, 1894
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A couple wearing smog masks, London, 1953
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City workers wearing government issued masks during the great smog, London, England, November 17, 1953
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, October 18, 1896
LIFE Magazine, October 26, 1953
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