Object Image

Miss Sadie Kirby/ Fannie Batchelder, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 4) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

Unknown Artist

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

c. 1888
Albumen photograph
7.0 x 3.5cm
63.350.203.45.1056
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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