Mary Pickford initiated the Mary Pickford Collection at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences when she placed with them the photographs, documents and scrapbooks, as well as other memorabilia, that she had saved over the years. After Pickford’s death, the Foundation added more material to the collection which is housed at the Academy’s Margaret Herrick Library in Beverly Hills, California. Our commitment to the Pickford collection at the Academy continues and we have been working with them to scan material which we will share as they become available.
Scrapbook #16 is oversized and was created by a fan in the mid 1920’s. What makes this one a bit different is that it contains full articles published between 1922 and 1925. Covering her early years in addition to her then current life with Doug Fairbanks, this scrapbook gives us a unique look at the way the magazines of the day – such as Ladies Home Journal, Colliers and McCall’s – covered “Our Mary” and Hollywood.
Link to the Margaret Herrick Library’s Mary Pickford Collection »
Additional Mary Pickford material can be found be searching the collection’s Inventories »
