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Additional authors

1. Ullman Manufacturing Co.
2. United Artists Corporation

Description

1. 7 lobby card photographs : b&w, tinted; 28 x 36 cm.

Summary

1. Advertising cards for the silent film Broken Blossoms, intended for display in movie theater lobbies. Depicts scenes showing the yellow man and the child (played by Lillian Gish), an opium den, a boxing fight, and Caucasian sailors in a brawl with the yellow man and a black? sailor. Directed by D. W. Griffith, the film featured Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, and Donald Crisp.

Donor/Sponsor

1. National Endowment for the Arts Millennium Project.

Series statement

1. Treasures of the American Performing Arts, 1875-1923

Alternative title

1. Broken blossoms, or, the yellow man and the girl
2. The chink and the child.
3. The yellow man and the girl.

Subject

1. Gish, Lillian, 1893-1993
2. Barthelmess, Richard, 1895-1963
3. Crisp, Donald, 1880-1974
4. Griffith, D. W. (David Wark), 1875-1948
5. Burke, Thomas, 1887-1945 -- Film and video adaptations
6. Silent films -- United States -- Lobby cards
7. Motion pictures -- United States -- 1911-1920
8. Film adaptations
9. Opium -- Pictorial works
10. Photographs

Genre/Form

1. Lobby cards.
2. Film stills.
3. Display cards.

Call number

1. *T-LC (Broken blossoms, 1919)

Note

1. Broken Blossoms was adapted from the story, The Chink and the child, by Thomas Burke.

Additional formats (note)

1. Also available in electronic form, digitized by The New York Public Library.

Local note

1. Some edges torn; magazine pages glued to backs; two lobby cards glued back to back.

Title

1. Broken blossoms lobby cards [graphic]

Imprint

1. New York : Ullman Mf'g, 1919.

Series

1. Treasures of the American Performing Arts, 1875-1923

Additional formats

1. Also available in electronic form, digitized by The New York Public Library.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Theatre Division Special Collections material
2. NYPL Digital Collections

Indexed term

1. Photographs

Added author

1. Ullman Manufacturing Co.
2. United Artists Corporation.

Added title

1. The chink and the child.
2. The yellow man and the girl.

Research call number

1. *T-LC (Broken blossoms, 1919)