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Billy Rose Theatre Division Lobby Cards

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Broken blossoms (Motion picture)

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Title
Sailors on street observe aftermath of clash between Chinese man and sailor.
Names
United Artists Corporation (Distributor)
Ullman Manufacturing Co. (Lithographer)
Collection

Billy Rose Theatre Division Lobby Cards

Broken blossoms (Motion picture)

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1919
Place: New York :
Publisher: Ullman Mf'g,
Library locations
Billy Rose Theatre Division
Shelf locator: *T-LC
Shelf locator: *T-LC Broken blossoms, 1919
Topics
Advertising -- Motion pictures
Barthelmess, Richard, 1895-1963
Burke, Thomas, 1887-1945
Crisp, Donald, 1880-1974
Film adaptations
Gish, Lillian, 1893-1993
Griffith, d. W. (David Wark), 1875-1948
Motion pictures -- United States -- 1911-1920
Opium
Silent films -- United States
Broken blossoms (Motion picture)
Genres
Lobby cards
Advertisements
Notes
Content: National Endowment for the Arts Millennium Project.
Content: 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.
Content: Alternate title: Broken blossoms, or, the yellow man and the girl.
Content: Broken Blossoms was adapted from the story, The Chink and the child, by Thomas Burke.
Content: Posters & lobby cards
Content: Some edges torn; magazine pages glued to backs; two lobby cards glued back to back.
Content: Treasures of the American Performing Arts, 1875-1923
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: NYPG98-F793
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b16513587
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): ce192b10-c6cb-012f-5259-58d385a7bc34
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  • 1919: Issued
  • 2013: Digitized
  • 2025: Found by you!
  • 2026

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Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "Sailors on street observe aftermath of clash between Chinese man and sailor." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1919. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47d9-4075-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "Sailors on street observe aftermath of clash between Chinese man and sailor." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 12, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47d9-4075-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. (1919). Sailors on street observe aftermath of clash between Chinese man and sailor. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47d9-4075-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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Sailors on street observe aftermath of clash between Chinese man and sailor.