Dorothy Gulliver cinema card
date: label: date made
content: 1934
name: label: depicted (sitter)
content: Gulliver, Dorothy
notes: label: Description
content: <p>Hand-colored cinema card for actress Dorothy Gulliver with a short biography on the back. American actress Dorothy Gulliver was born on 6 September 1908 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Gulliver received her first film contract after winning a Salt Lake City beauty contest sponsored by Universal Pictures. She made a successful transition from silent films to “talkies” and appeared mostly in Western dramas, even starring alongside actor John Wayne. Gulliver also appeared in films such as <i>College Love</i> (1929) and <i>The Last Frontier</i> (1932). She passed away on 23 May 1997 at the age of 88.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>This card belongs to a set titled "Cinema Stars: A Series of 30 Hand Coloured Pictures" which features popular film actresses from the 1930s. Collectible cards like this were very popular during the 1920s and 1930s, and they were distributed by various brands in both tobacco and food products. In the 1920s, Cavanders Ltd. also released the following sets of cards: "Beauty Spots of Great Britain," "Foreign Birds," and "River Valleys."</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
topic: label: Subject
content: Movie
label: Subject
content: Actors
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Movie Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.0117.07
label: accession number
content: 2014.0117
label: catalog number
content: 2014.0117.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: collectible card
label: Object Name
content: card
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: paint (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 5/8 in x 1 7/16 in; 6.6675 cm x 3.65125 cm