The Chinese man and the child in his rooms.
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Research CatalogImage ID
G98F793_006
Item data
Title
The Chinese man and the child in his rooms.
Collection
Billy Rose Theatre Division Lobby Cards
Broken blossoms (Motion picture)
Names
United Artists Corporation (Distributor)
Ullman Manufacturing Co. (Lithographer)
Date / Origin
Date Issued: 1919
Place: New York
Publisher: Ullman Mf'g
Library Location
Billy Rose Theatre Division
Shelf locator: *T-LC
Shelf locator: *T-LC Broken blossoms, 1919
Subjects
Advertising -- Motion pictures
Barthelmess, Richard, 1895-1963
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
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
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: NYPG98-F793
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b16513587
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): ce819db0-c6cb-012f-2499-58d385a7bc34
Rights
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Type Of Resource
Date Issued
1919
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MLA format
Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "The Chinese man and the child in his rooms." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1919. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ce819db0-c6cb-012f-2499-58d385a7bc34
APA format
Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. (1919). The Chinese man and the child in his rooms. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ce819db0-c6cb-012f-2499-58d385a7bc34
Chicago/Turabian Format
Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "The Chinese man and the child in his rooms." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 13, 2026. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ce819db0-c6cb-012f-2499-58d385a7bc34
Wikipedia citation
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