| Contributor |
Donaldson Brothers (Firm), printer. |
| Title |
Rolling cigarette. [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
New York : Donaldson Brothers |
| Publisher |
N.Y. New York. 1890 |
| Date |
[ca. 1890] |
| Physical Description |
1 print : chromolithograph ; 10 x 6 cm. (4 x 2.5 in.) |
| Description |
Illustrated trade card for W. Duke Sons & Co., a manufacturing branch of the American Tobacco Co., depicting a female bicycle
and trick rider performing in costume. She rolls a cigarette and sits on a penny-farthing or high wheeled bicycle. Also includes
a small vignette of a bicycle on verso.
|
| Notes |
Advertising text printed on verso promotes "Honest long cut, the best smoking and chewing tobacco." |
|
One of twenty-five cards included with tobacco packages and issued as one of a series by the American Tobacco Co. |
|
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012. |
|
Gift of Helen Beitler. |
|
Digitized. |
| Subject |
American Tobacco Company. |
|
W. Duke, Sons & Co. |
|
Tobacco industry -- New York (State) -- New York. |
|
Women entertainers. |
|
Trick riding. |
|
Cigarettes. |
|
Bicycles & tricycles. |
| Genre |
Trade cards -- 1880-1890. |
|
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - American Tobacco [P.2002.9.2] |
| Accession number |
P.2002.9.2 |
