The voices you hear in the night are only the frogs singing... Greenback Smoking Tobacco from Marburg Bros.Tobacco Company (HP1b)
Issued ca.1880–90 by Marburg Bros.Tobacco Company, Baltimore. Fairy figure on lilypad conducting frogs on shore. Wide border. Printed at top: SMOKE GREENBACK TOBACCO. Image of tobacco pouch with advertising at lower right. Across lower border: "The voices you hear in the night are only the frogs singing the praises of the great Greenback Smoking Tobacco". Printed in green: A. HOEN & CO. BALTIMORE. Note: HP1b has been assigned as a "catch all" for advertising cards for the companies Lorillard and Marburg and covers a number of and wide variety of subjects and images.
Artwork Details
- Title: The voices you hear in the night are only the frogs singing... Greenback Smoking Tobacco from Marburg Bros.Tobacco Company (HP1b)
- Publisher: Marburg Brothers (American, 1865–1891)
- Lithographer: A. Hoen & Co. (American, 1835–1981)
- Date: ca.1880–90
- Medium: Commercial color lithograph
- Dimensions: Sheet: 10 3/16 × 13 1/16 in. (25.9 × 33.2 cm)
- Classifications: Prints, Ephemera
- Credit Line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick
- Object Number: Burdick 6, HP1b.55
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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