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Benton, Cincinnati, from the Famous Baseball Players, Champion Athletes, and Photo Play Stars, issued by Fatima Turkish Blend Cigarettes

Issued by Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company American

1913

Not on view

Trade card from the "Famous Baseball Players, Champion Athletes, and Photo Play Stars" series (T222), issued in 1913 by Fatima Turkish Blend Cigarettes for Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company.

Benton, Cincinnati, from the Famous Baseball Players, Champion Athletes, and Photo Play Stars, issued by Fatima Turkish Blend Cigarettes, Issued by Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company (American, North Carolina), Commercial photograph — This image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.

Title: Benton, Cincinnati, from the Famous Baseball Players, Champion Athletes, and Photo Play Stars, issued by Fatima Turkish Blend Cigarettes

Artist: Issued by Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company (American, North Carolina)

Date: 1913

Medium: Commercial photograph

Dimensions: Sheet: 3 3/4 × 2 1/2 in. (9.5 × 6.3 cm)

Classifications: Prints, Ephemera

Credit Line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick

Accession Number: 63.350.247.222.5

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