AMERICAN SILENT MOVIE POSTER, lithograph, First National Pictures' "Love's Wilderness", from the story by Evelyn Campbell, with Corinne Griffith as Linda Lou Heath, Holmes Herbert as David Tennant, and Ian Keith as Paul L'Estrange, directed by Robert Z. Leonard. "Ritchey / LITH. CORPS., N.Y." in lower right corner, pencil inscription across lower margin. Modern framed under glass. Circa 1924. 26 3/4" x 41" sight, 28 1/4" x 42 1/2" OA.
Overall toning, one repaired tear, expected folds and creases, and holes in corners from pins. Laid on board (UPDATED 8/24/17).
Literature: For history on Merry Mills and the theater, see Lucey - Archie and Amelie: Love and Madness in the Gilded Age, pp. 270-271.
Provenance: From a private Virginia collector. _x000D_
Originally displayed at Merry Mills movie theater, Albemarle County, Virginia.
Catalogue Note: Merry Mills (or Merrie Mill as it is called today for its original name) in Keswick, Virginia, was founded in 1857 and once owned by John Armstrong Chanler, an heir of the Astor fortune. Chanler converted a cow barn into a theater to house 300 people, showing regular films complete with a player piano and snacks.

Overall toning, one repaired tear, expected folds and creases, and holes in corners from pins. Laid on board (UPDATED 8/24/17).