Carrie Richardson/ Josie Dirkee, Erminie Co./ Fannie Batchelder/ Laura Curtis, Corsair Co., from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 4) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

Trade cards from the "Actors and Actresses" series (N45, Type 4), 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.

Credit: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick