James Watt, Inventor of the Steam Engine, from the "Heroes of History" series (T68), issued with Miners Extra Smoking Tobacco, Natural Leaf Scrap, and Royal Bengals Little Cigars

Publisher Issued by Royal Bengals Little Cigars American

Sitter James Watt Scottish

1911

Not on view

Tobacco insert card from the "Heroes of History" series (T68), issued with Miners Extra Smoking Tobacco, Natural Leaf Scrap, and Royal Bengals Little Cigars in 1911. Half of the cards are titled "Men of History."

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Title: James Watt, Inventor of the Steam Engine, from the "Heroes of History" series (T68), issued with Miners Extra Smoking Tobacco, Natural Leaf Scrap, and Royal Bengals Little Cigars
Publisher: Issued by Royal Bengals Little Cigars
Sitter: James Watt (Scottish, Greenock 1736–1819 Handsworth)
Date: 1911
Medium: Commercial color lithograph
Dimensions: Sheet: 3 3/8 × 2 5/16 in. (8.5 × 5.8 cm)
Classifications: Prints, Ephemera
Credit Line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick
Object Number: 63.350.244.68.93
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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