A circular cigarette card, Pola Negri.
Category
Photographs
Date
1924
Materials
Card
Measurements
58 mm (Diameter)
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520764.7
Summary
A Godfrey Phillips circular photo cigarette card. Recto is a gelatine silver DOP portrait of Pola Negri, with "Pola Negri" printed on the photo in white. Verso, printed in blue on a white background is detail about Pola Negri and her career. Around the edge is printed "Issued with Godfrey Phillips Cigarettes Only London, England".
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986