Uncut sheet, from the Actresses series (N212) issued by Kinney Bros. Tobacco Company

Publisher Issued by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company American

1890s

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Uncut sheet of 25 trade cards from the "Actresses" series (N212), issued in the 1890s in an unnumbered set of 50 cards by Kinney Bros.Tobacco Company. Frame line around each image near edge. Includes, left to right by row: Hope Booth, Lizzie MacNichol, Maud Hobson, Cissy Fitzgerald, Grace Kimball, Inez Rae, H. Madison, Mlle. Salvator, Lulu Glaser, Lillian Grubb, Adele Ritchie, Cissy's Wink, Nina Farrington, Bertha Galland, Amy Busby, Lillian Blauvelt, Mlle. Bertaut, Maxine Elliott, Agnes Evans, Germaine Gallois, Anna Robinson, Eunice Vance, Mabel Dunlap, Fay Templeton, Ileene Vincent. Printed advertising on back (repeated on each card): BEWARE OF IMITATIONS/ Do not be deceived by infringements of name,/ Package or cigarettes. The only genuine/ SWEET CAPORAL/ cigarettes bear the fac simile/ signature of/ Kinney Bros (printed in script)/ on the package and on each cigarette./ TAKE NONE WITHOUT.

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Title: Uncut sheet, from the Actresses series (N212) issued by Kinney Bros. Tobacco Company
Publisher: Issued by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company
Date: 1890s
Medium: Colored photolithograph
Dimensions: Sheet: 13 13/16 × 7 7/16 in. (35.1 × 18.9 cm)
Classifications: Prints, Ephemera
Credit Line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick
Object Number: Burdick 217, N212.45
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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