Esther Ralston cinema card
date: label: date made
content: 1934
name: label: depicted (sitter)
content: Ralston, Esther
notes: label: Description
content: <p>Hand-colored cinema card for actress Esther Ralston with a short biography on the back. American actress Esther Ralston was born on 17 September 1902 in Bar Harbor, Maine. Ralston's family was a theatrical family, performing various burlesque, carnival and vaudeville acts. At age two, she joined the family act, beginning her career as an actress. After this, she appeared in a few silent films before her big break as Mrs. Darling in in the 1924 film version of <i>Peter Pan</i>. In 1926, Ralston starred in the film <i>The American Venus</i> the title of which also became her nickname. She went on to become one of the highest-paid stars of the silent film era. During a 30-year time period, Ralston appeared in close to 100 films including dramas, comedies, and westerns. She died on 14 January 1994 at the age of 91, but her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame immortalizes her contributions to the film industry.</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: 2014.0117.10
label: accession number
content: 2014.0117
label: catalog number
content: 2014.0117.10
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