Thomas Meighan Ghirardelli Motion Picture Star Card
date: label: date made
content: 1920
label: date made
content: 1920s
name: label: depicted (sitter)
content: Meighan, Thomas
notes: label: Description
content: Sepia tone motion picture star card of American actor, Thomas Meighan. He was a famous silent film and early talking picture star who played opposite popular actresses like Mary Pickford and Gloria Swanson. Meighan’s most popular films include <i>Male and Female</i>, <i>Why Change Your Wife?</i>, and <i>The Racket</i>.
label: Description
content: The card is from a set of 70 movie star cards inserted into packages of Ghirardelli Milk Chocolate. The Ghiradelli Chocolate Company was founded by an Italian named Domenico Ghiradelli. Over 160 years later, Ghiradelli is the oldest continuously operating chocolate maker in America.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Movie Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: George W. Sims
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0806.01
label: accession number
content: 1981.0806
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0806.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Card, Trading
label: Object Name
content: card
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 2 7/8 in; 13.97 cm x 7.3025 cm