Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm - Photographs - 1917

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917) Artcraft A10-13 publicity still. Part of NZ Photo Album.

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917) Artcraft A10-19 publicity still from NZ. 

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917) Artcraft A10-13 publicity still from NZ. Pictured along with Mary is Mayme Kelso who incidentally played the part of her mother in her only surviving majestic, and perhaps one of her best short films, Little Red Riding Hood (1911)

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917) Artcraft A10-10 publicity still from NZ. Pictured again with Mary is Mayme Kelso and Josephine Crowell.

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 a photo by Marceau and 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. Advertising Captain Kidd Jr. screening. 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. Advertising a M'Liss screening. 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.

1921 Neilson's Chocolate card. Photo by Moody.  Trimmed.

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

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

Kinema card. Trimmed.  Advertising, erroneously, Good Little Rich Girl, A.K.A. The Poor Little Rich Girl. 1917.

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

Mary Pickford as Rags card. Photo by De Gaston.

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

Kinema / Franklin Theatre card. Trimmed. Adevertising a Johanna Enlists screening. 1918.

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

Kinema card. Mary Pickford, dressed as Rebecca From Sunnybrook Farm, and William S. Hart. Trimmed. Advertising a The Little American screening. 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.

Mary Pickford - Ira L. Hill - Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm - theatre card - 1917

3.25 x 5.25 theatre card from 1917 featuring a 1916 photo of Mary by Ira L. Hill. The card advertises a children's matinee of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm--among other films--at the City Opera House (city unknown at this time.)

Mary Pickford in her victory garden - Photos - ca. 1917

Mary with a hose.

Mary inspecting limes. (Or as noted in the July 12, 1919 issue of The Picture Show, “The pick of the bunch, and there as many luscious fruit trees in her garden.”)

These photos show, at least according to an article (marketing) in the September 3, 1917 Artcraft Advance, Mary in the victory garden she created at her California bungalow in which she tended with the help of a "real farmer." In the article, Mary (or perhaps the Artcraft publicity department) stated "This is the first time I have ever given any personal attention to the nursing of a bean or a potato, and if I do not make a good Rebecca [of Sunnybrook Farm] it will not be because of lack of farm mannerisms." Photographer unknown. 1917. Part of NZ Photo Album.