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P.2016.56.21-24 verso
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Contributor
Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain and Ireland, publisher.
Title
Children of all nations. A series of 50. [graphic].
Publisher
[London]: Issued by Ogden's branch of the Imperial Tobacco Co. of Great Britain & Ireland Ltd
Publisher
ENG. London. 1924
Date
[ca. 1924]
Physical Description
34 prints: color lithograph; sheets 7 x 4 cm.(2.5 x 1.5 in.)
Description
Series of pop out cigarette cards depicting waist-length portraits of children (boys and girls) of different nationalities attired in their "native" costume. Includes Arabia (boy); Australia (boy); Belgian Congo (boy); Belgium (girl); Bulgaria (boy); Burma (girl); Denmark (girl); Egypt (girl); England (boy); Greece (girl); Holland (girl); Hungary (boy); Italy (girl); Ireland (girl); Mexico (boy); Natal (girl); New Zealand (girl); Norway (girl); Palestine (girl); Patagonia (girl); Poland (girl); Portugal (boy); Rumania (girl); Russia (girl); Scotland (boy); Siam (boy); Spain (girl); Sweden (girl); Tahiti (girl); Tibet (girl); Tunis (girl); Turkey (girl); United States (girl); and Wales (girl). The Ogden Branch was originally founded by Thomas Ogden as the Ogdens Tobacco Company in 1860. In 1901, American Tobacco Company bought Ogden's Tobacco Company and it in turn was bought by Imperial Tobacco Co. in 1902. Ogden started to include cigarette cards in its packaging in 1894.
Notes
Date inferred from pop out format. Series issued in 1924 as pop outs.
Printed above images: Ogden's Cigarettes.
Title from series title on items.
Versos contain explicative statements describing the depicted children's appearance, social life, and customs.
Gift of George Allen.
RVCDC
Description reviewed 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Subject
Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain and Ireland.
Children.
Children -- Clothing & dress.
Tobacco industry -- England -- London.
Racialization and visual culture.
Geographic subject
Africa -- Social life and customs.
Asia -- Social life and customs.
Australia -- Social life and customs.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs.
Europe -- Social life and customs.
French Polynesia -- Social life and customs.
North America -- Social life and customs.
South America -- Social life and customs.
Genre
Cigarette cards -- 1920-1930.
Premiums -- 1920-1930.
Offset lithographs -- Color -- 1920-1930.
Printer
Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain and Ireland, publisher.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| ephemera - Cards [P.2016.56.1-34]
Accession number
various
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