Object Image

Stitch Bird, from the Song Birds of the World series (N23) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Unknown Artist

Trade cards from the "Song Birds of the World" series (N23), issued in 1890 in a set of 50 cards to promote Allen & Ginter brand cigarettes.

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

1890

Commercial color lithograph

7.0 x 3.8 cm

63.350.201.23.45

Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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