Annie Summerville, Corsair Co., from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 6) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes
Unknown Artist
Trade cards from the "Actors and Actresses" series (N45, Type 6), issued ca. 1888 by Allen & Ginter to promote Virginia Brights, Dixie, Our Little Beauties and Opera Puffs Cigarettes. Type 4 cards from the N45 series contain four miniature portraits of actresses on one card. Type 6 cards are a bit larger in dimension than the other types in the N45 series.
Credit: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick
c. 1888
Albumen photograph
7.4 x 4.3 cm
63.350.203.45.1086
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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