Verso of card featuring children from Allen & Ginter Advertising Cards (H233)

Lithographer A. Hoen & Co. American

1880s

Not on view

From Allen & Ginter Advertising Cards (H233). Issued in the 1880s by Allen & Ginter, Richmond Virginia. Front: color scenes of children in various tableaus. Gold edges. Back: advertising for Pet Cigarettes and Richmond Straight Cut brands. A. Hoen lithographers. Printed on card: THE/ RICHMOND STRAIGHT CUT No. 1./ AND/ PET CIGARETTES/ are made from the brightest, most delicate/ flavored and highest cost Gold Leaf To/ bacco grown in Virginia. They are un-/ equaled for their delicate aroma and rare/ fragrance, and are absolutely without Adul-/ teration or Drugs. Both brands are made/ from the same stock. Pet Cigarettes are/ longer and slimmer than the Richmond/ Straight Cut Nr. 1, but the same weight./ ALLEN & GINTER,/ MANUFACTURERS,/ LEWIS GINTER,/ JOHN POPE.} / RICHMOND/ VA.

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Provenance

Title: Verso of card featuring children from Allen & Ginter Advertising Cards (H233)
Publisher: Allen & Ginter (American, Richmond, Virginia)
Lithographer: A. Hoen & Co. (American, 1835–1981)
Date: 1880s
Medium: Commercial color lithograph
Dimensions: Sheet: 5 3/16 × 3 3/4 in. (13.2 × 9.5 cm)
Classifications: Prints, Ephemera
Credit Line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick
Object Number: Burdick 5, H233.25
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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