How to Amuse an Evening Party, from the Honest Library series (N115) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

Publisher Issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. American

Lithographer Lithography by Donaldson Brothers American

1896

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Trade cards/ booklets from the "Honest Library'" series (N115), issued in an unnumbered set of 25 in 1896 by W. Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco. Each booklet consists of 16 pages of text and illustrations on a theme. Two other cigarette companies released the series in the same year, Gail & Ax (Navy Library) and Whitlock (Cheroots Library).

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Title: How to Amuse an Evening Party, from the Honest Library series (N115) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco
Publisher: Issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. (New York and Durham, N.C.)
Lithographer: Lithography by Donaldson Brothers (American, New York)
Date: 1896
Medium: Commercial color lithograph
Dimensions: Sheet: 4 1/8 × 2 1/2 in. (10.4 × 6.3 cm)
Classifications: Prints, Ephemera
Credit Line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick
Object Number: 63.350.206.115.16
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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