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Smiling Jim, Lobby Card
A gunman holds up a saloon.
What
A 1922 lobby card for the western Smiling Jim, 11 by 14 inches.
Why
Yale's Beinecke Library holds it in its Western silent films lobby card collection, where the cataloguer reads the scene as a cowboy in a bar doorway holding up a crowd.
Notice
The photograph sits in a printed border of cowboy silhouettes, cactus, desert panels and crossed pistols, and no title is lettered on the card.
“Hands up in the saloon”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Smiling Jim (1922)
- Country / studio
- United States
- Format
- Lobby card
- Poster published
- U.S. lobby card, 11 x 14 in., 1922
- Source
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (poster published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year, never the film’s. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
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