Before Ben Butler... from Duke of Durham Smoking Tobacco Advertising Cards (HM3)
From Duke of Durham Smoking Tobacco Advertising Cards (HM1). Issued in the 1880s by W. Duke Son & Co., Durham, N. C. Comic advertising card. When card parts are rearranged, different faces are created. Known as "Metamorphic and Mechanical" cards. Donaldson Brothers, New York lithographers. Card back has space for local advertisers. Back of card, yellow print on black ground: The Only Genuine!/ DUKE OF/ DURHAM/ TRADE MARK/ SMOKING TOBACCO MANUFACTURED BY/ W. DUKE, SONS & CO., DURHAM, N.C.
Artwork Details
- Title: Before Ben Butler... from Duke of Durham Smoking Tobacco Advertising Cards (HM3)
- Publisher: W. Duke, Sons & Co. (New York and Durham, N.C.)
- Lithographer: Donaldson Brothers (American, New York)
- Date: 1880s
- Medium: Commercial color lithograph
- Dimensions: Sheet: 3 1/8 × 2 1/4 in. (7.9 × 5.7 cm)
- Classifications: Prints, Ephemera
- Credit Line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick
- Object Number: Burdick 5, HM3.2
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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