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As many of you know, I, Bruce Hershenson, owner of eMoviePoster.com, have collected pressbooks (and related movie paper like studio yearbooks) for over 30 years, and I have the world's foremost collection of such material. I thought I would share one item with you each week, the type of items you almost surely have never seen before, and which might not come up for sale for DECADES!

So below is the pressbook from Bread, the 1924 Victor Schertzinger family relationship romantic women-at-home-and-in-the-workplace woman's liberation melodrama ("A picturization of the World Famous Novel by Chas. G. Norris"; about sisters whose mother is widowed, and so that they won't be a burden on her one immediately marries and has children, and the other gets a job as a stenographer; when the working sister is facing a scandal, she too marries, but is unhappy and leaves, only to find out three years later that she wants a family like her sister, so she returns to her husband!) starring Mae Busch, Robert Frazer, Pat O'Malley, Wanda Hawley, and Eugenie Besserer. Note that as was fairly common in these silent woman's liberation melodramas, the movie has a "happy ending" where both woman "realize" they would be happier with a husband and kids, but these movies still helped awaken feminist ideas in many female viewers' heads!

Here is an image of the pressbook's covers and an interior spread:

 

Each week I will showcase a different pressbook (or related item) from my collection (so in just 20,000 weeks or so, I will have shared the entire collection with you!). And remember to check out our previous Cool Items of the Week in our Cool Item of the Week archive (which is fully searchable!).