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For masthead use in the future? The Squaw Man would be best of all, but any good shot would do.

For masthead use, it needs to show the whole person from left to right (a little cropping on the arms is ok, I can fake the edges back into place, but a headshot cut off at both sides won't work).

The only one that I have, from Durand of the Bad Lands (1917).

The book Classics of the Silent Screen by Joe Franklin has two head and shoulder
shots of Dustin Farnum. One has him dressed in buckskin.

I can probably grab a frame from TCM's broadcast, which I recorded. If that is sufficient quality.

I've looked through the first twenty minutes, but haven't seen a good, clear shot of him yet.

Rick

Not sure if either of these would do:
http://archive.org/stream/movingpicture ... 3/mode/1up" target="_blank
http://archive.org/stream/PhotoplayMaga ... 0/mode/1up" target="_blank

I know you are looking for scans, but eBay has plenty of inexpensive shots of Farnum
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid= ... &_from=R40

Mike, I have at least a couple absolutely gorgeous circa 1915 / 16 vintage original 8x10s portraits I could scan for you. Send me a PM if interested.

Rob

All right, I have a couple of choices, thanks everyone!

The internet White Pages site lists 7 people in the USA/Canada with the name Dustin Farnum.
At the end of today's re-broadcast, Fresh Air 'Quartet': Dustin Hoffman, Behind The Camera ,
Dustin Hoffman tells the story of how he received his silent era first name .

GROSS: So one more thing. Your father worked in movies before you were born. He was in the props department and the head of the props department at Columbia Pictures. And you were named after the silent screen actor Dustin Farnum. I don't think I've seen him in anything.

HOFFMAN: You're too young.

GROSS: Well, I've seen silent films but I don't believe I've seen him.

HOFFMAN: Right.

GROSS: But I don't know what films he's been in. I should have looked it up but I didn't. So did you go back and watch his films so you would know who is it I'm named after and what did he mean to my parents?

HOFFMAN: I'm ashamed to say I did not. He didn't mean anything to my parents. That I know. But now that there's the Internet, I probably could...

GROSS: So why did they name you after him if they...

HOFFMAN: Well, they expected a girl and my father was kind of a dogmatic guy. He bet people that I would be born on his birthday and it would be a girl. I was born on his birthday but I wasn't born as a girl. My mother - we were lower middle class. My mother was in a place called Los - in Los Angeles Angels Hospital, and she had a room with other people
And every day they would come in and say you have to name your son. And they couldn't get around to picking a name. And one morning they said we need it now, and there was a magazine - on the next bed the woman was reading a movie magazine, and there was the name Dustin Farnum. And she picked Dustin, and I - and that was it.
And he was a cowboy actor. He was a silent movie cowboy actor, he and his brother, William Farnum. And before that, I think they were Shakespearean actors. But now I will try to take - I've seen photos of him. But I'll tell you what's one of the great perks about having a successful career is the number of people that I now see and hear that are named Dustin.

GROSS: Absolutely. Yeah.

HOFFMAN: You know, particularly athletes.

GROSS: They're all named after Dustin Farnum. They don't want to tell you that.

HOFFMAN: You're right. (laughter) You're right.

Elsewhere (e.g. on Wikipedia ), it is suggested (incorrectly) that the magazine that inspired Hoffman's mother had Farnum on its cover.
My semi-interested (non-interesting) question has long been, what movie magazine could it possibly have been-
since, at the time of Hoffman's arrival, Farnum had been dead a cool eight years?
All I could google, so far, in 1937 is a Farnum mention in the

July 10, 1937 New Yorker Magazine
Dustin Farnum, the leading matinée idol of the time, who had just made a great hit on Broadway in "The Squaw Man," was at the Lambs.
With him was Edwin Milton Royle, who had written the play."There's an idea," said Lasky." "We'll buy 'The Squaw Man' for our picture and get Dustin Farnum to act in it." Royle agreed to sell the movie rights of "The Squaw Man" for $15,000. Farnum agreed to act in it for a one-fourth interest in the movie company that Lasky promised to form. Later, after the venture began to take shape, Farnum reconsidered.
He said, "I'm a businessman, and I know these stock things are no good. I want cash."
This was a terrific blow to Lasky at the time; finding cash was the company's greatest problem. But $5,000 was paid to Farnum instead of 5,000 shares of stock. In later years the shares were split up until each original share was represented by eighty - eight shares. Had Farnum stuck to his original bargain, held his stock, and sold it at its high, his fee for his services in "The Squaw Man" would have been more than $30,000,000.

JFK wrote: My semi-interested (non-interesting) question has long been, what movie magazine could it possibly have been-
since, at the time of Hoffman's arrival, Farnum had been dead a cool eight years?

i was wondering that very thing as i re-listened to that interview today. Unless the waiting room had really old magazines.

greta