Object Image

Isabelle Coe, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 8) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

Unknown Artist

Trade cards from the "Actors and Actresses" series (N45, Type 8), issued ca. 1888 by Allen & Ginter to promote Virginia Brights, Dixie, Our Little Beauties and Opera Puffs Cigarettes.

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

c. 1888

Albumen photograph

6.6 x 3.8 cm

63.350.203.45.1242

Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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