Lobby card for the motion picture The Cowboy King
date: label: date made
content: 1922
name: label: Associated Name
content: Seeling, Charles R.
label: Associated Name
content: Williams, Jr., Guinn Terrell
label: Associated Name
content: Gibson, Ella Margaret
label: Associated Name
content: Dyer, William J.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Lobby card for the motion picture The Cowboy King. The card features a sepia-toned photograph of a scene from the film, showing young woman pointing at a car tire while a man stands beside the car looking on. Information about the film is printed in an inset black box with a white border. This card was likely used to promote a screening of this film at a theater in Mt. Carmel, IL, where the card was found.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The Cowboy King is a silent film directed by Charles R. Seeling, produced by Charles R. Seeling Productions and distributed by Aywon Film Corporation, released in May 1922. The Western film stars Guinn ‘Big Boy’ Williams, Patricia Palmer, Bill Dyer, Elizabeth De Witt, and William Austin, and tells the story of happy-go-lucky Dud Smiley (Williams) assisting rancher Ethel Dunlap (Palmer) whose nasty neighbor has fenced off the local watering hole. According to The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog, The Cowboy King survives in a complete 35mm theatrical print at the Cinematheque Royale de Belgique.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Associated Place
content: United States: Illinois, Mount Carmel
topic: label: Subject
content: Motion Pictures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2021.0120.16
label: accession number
content: 2021.0120
label: catalog number
content: 2021.0120.16
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lobby card
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 14 in; 27.94 cm x 35.56 cm