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The Boy Girl, Trade Advertisement
A frilled girl, a tomboy in a cap.
What
A 1917 Motion Picture News page in which Bluebird Photoplays present The Boy Girl, a comedy directed by Edwin Stevens.
Why
Violet Mersereau plays a tomboy controlled by two aunts after her father dies and leaves her an inheritance.
Notice
The page bills it as "The Romantic Life Story of a Tomboy" and prints the title as "THE BOYGIRL" among pen drawings signed "E.R."
“A tomboy's romance in ink”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 18x24" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- The Boy Girl (1917), dir. Edwin Stevens
- Country / studio
- United States · Bluebird Photoplays
- Format
- Other
- Poster published
- U.S. trade-paper advertisement, Motion Picture News, 1917
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
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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