Wanda Hawley Ghirardelli Motion Picture Star Card: Museum Object and Cultural History
Wanda Hawley Ghirardelli Motion Picture Star Card: date made: 1920s. depicted (sitter): Hawley, Wanda. Object Name: Card, Trading.
The object in the museum catalogue
Sepia tone motion picture star card of American film actress, Wanda Hawley. She was a popular leading lady of the silent era who specialized in romantic comedies and dramas. She is best known for The Young Rajah, The Affairs of Anatol, and Smouldering Fires.
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.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1920s
- depicted (sitter): Hawley, Wanda
- Object Name: Card, Trading
- Object Name: card
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 5 1/2 in x 2 7/8 in; 13.97 cm x 7.3025 cm
- ID Number: 1981.0806.09
- accession number: 1981.0806
- catalog number: 1981.0806.09
- Credit Line: George W. Sims
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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