1930s (ca): Mary with Carriage
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A silent home movie featuring children playing with their Christmas toys, a child’s third birthday party celebration, and families interacting outdoors with each other.
Complete catalog record
Cfa collection: Richard J. Finnegan Collection
Notes: A young girl, Mary, plays outside near the front stairs of her home with several toys and a baby carriage. Patches of snow cover the grass.; Mary sits inside in a high chair eating from her plate, dances in front of the fireplace, rides a rocking horse as her presumed sister plays with a doll, and both enact a tea party that includes a miniature stove and the doll. A silver Christmas tree sits in the background.; Then, children celebrate a third birthday party while eating desert and wearing paper hats as the parents look on. The kids wave small American flags outside and play “Ring Around the Rosie”.; Parents and children pose together outside for the camera and socialize. Mary rides her tricycle down the sidewalk, and then she practices being a flower girl for a wedding.
Subjects: Bicycles; Birthdays; Children; Christmas; Domestic life; Families
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Chicago
Language: English
Cfa elements: 200 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/8468
Notes: A young girl, Mary, plays outside near the front stairs of her home with several toys and a baby carriage. Patches of snow cover the grass.; Mary sits inside in a high chair eating from her plate, dances in front of the fireplace, rides a rocking horse as her presumed sister plays with a doll, and both enact a tea party that includes a miniature stove and the doll. A silver Christmas tree sits in the background.; Then, children celebrate a third birthday party while eating desert and wearing paper hats as the parents look on. The kids wave small American flags outside and play “Ring Around the Rosie”.; Parents and children pose together outside for the camera and socialize. Mary rides her tricycle down the sidewalk, and then she practices being a flower girl for a wedding.
Subjects: Bicycles; Birthdays; Children; Christmas; Domestic life; Families
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Chicago
Language: English
Cfa elements: 200 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/8468
Sources
- Chicago Film Archives · record ↗ — title, year, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, catalog record, video
Record added 2026-11-08 21:25:01