Detail

Category: LOAN
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Agency: The New York Times
Date: ca. 1922
Medium: gelatin silver print with retouching
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: NYT.2016.0679.0104

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: W 89 [illeg.] / Mary Pickford / 10 / how she washes her hair, / using only plain soap / & water. Two shampoos and / two rinses comprise the / operation.; handwritten: 38-34-L-7 [boxed and struck through]; handwritten: 14-484-L-8 [boxed]; handwritten: N.P.; handwritten: 214-B [boxed and struck through]; handwritten: 70 [circled]; stamped: PUB[L] SEP 10 19 [obscured]; handwritten: 3 9/16 x 4 7/8; handwritten: 10-P3-B [circled]; stamped: SEP 10 1922; printed: [newsprint adhered with paste] PRESERVING HER GOLDEN CURLS: MARY PICKFORD, / Motion-Picture Star, Enjoying One of the Shampoos Which / Keep Her Blond Tresses in Condition to Delight Her Ad- / mirers in the "Movie / Palaces" of the / World. / (Times Wide / World / Photos)

Credit Line: The Rudolph P. Bratty Family Collection