Mary Pickford Tobacco / Cigarette / Chocolate / Theatre / Trading Cards

Many moons ago, one could acquire these small cards (tobacco cards, cigarette cards, chocolate cards, theatre cards, trading cards, etc.,) not more than a few inches in size, in a pack of cigarettes, from a machine at the arcade, as a hand out at the local theatre, or via some other means. Some were printed while a good many are actual photographs.

Issued in 1913, this Major Drapkin & Co. Cinematograph Actors series card shows Mary during her IMP days and is reportedly the first tobacco card she appears on (or at least, one of, as this particular series had two unnumbered Pickford cards, the other being marked Biograph.)

The cards below, some of which have been trimmed, were gifted from the Pamela Short Collection.

Chocolate E. Juncosa card from Spain. Photo by Melbourne Spurr.

Kinema  / Franklin Theatre Card. Trimmed. Captain Kidd Jr. Photo by Hartsook. 1919.

Photo by Hartsook. Trimmed.

Sequoia Theatre card. According to the inscription on a music box given to Mary by her then husband Douglas Fairbanks in 1930, this portrait by Hartsook was his favorite photo of her. Trimmed.

Photo by Hartsook.

Kinema Theatre card.  Trimmed. M'Liss. Photo by Hartsook. 1918. 

Photo by Hartsook (showing Mary at her one-time leased home (1917-1918) at 1519 N. Western in Hollywood.)  Trimmed.

Photo by Campbell Studio.

Photo by Moody.  Trimmed.

1931 Penny Magazine (England) card. Photo by Campbell Studio.

The New T & D Theatre card. Trimmed.  A Romance of the Redwoods. 1917.

Cinema Stars cigarette card. Photo by Campbell Studios.

Ringers Cigarettes Cinema Stars card. Photo of Mary in a Lanvin dress by Rahmn. c. 1921.

The New T & D Theatre card. Trimmed.  Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. 1917.

Kinema card. Trimmed.  The Poor Little Rich Girl. 1917.

The New T & D Theatre card. A Little Princess. 1917.

Mary Pickford as Rags card. Photo by De Gaston.

T & D Theatre card. Hulda from Holland. 1916. 

Kinema / Franklin Theatre card. Trimmed.Johanna Enlists. 1918.

The Spinet House - Spinet Cigarettes card. Photo by Lindstedt.

Kinema card. Mary Pickford and Bill Hart. Trimmed.  The Little American. 1917.

De Reszke (England) cigarette card. 

Lambert & Butler (England) cigarette card. Late '20s.

Salem Cigarettenfabrik (Germany.) 1931. Photo by Hesser.

Omega Cigarette Factory card. Photo by G.L. Manuel Freres.

JOB Cigarette card. Photo by Melbourne Spurr.