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Card 431, Viola Allen, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

Card 437, Lillie Blow, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

Card 267, Alice Atherton, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

Card 443, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

Card 429, Miss Carey, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

Card 495, Leila Farrell, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

Card 508, Conolly, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

Card 529, Leslie Chester, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

Card 421, Louise Chester, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

Card 427, Alice Lingard, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

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Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

In 1888, Allen & Ginter began to release cigarette card sets as promotional items for its cigarette brands. Most part of the collection consisting of illustrated cards with a few collections of photographs. Topics varied from birds and wild animals to American Indian chiefs or flags of the world. Allen & Ginter's baseball cards were the first of the tobacco era baseball cards ever produced for distribution on a national level. The most popular and highly sought after of these sets is the N28 and N29 "World's Champions" series, released in 1887.

Allen and Ginter, a tobacco manufacturing company founded in 1865 by John Allen and Lewis Ginter in Richmond, Virginia, created the first cigarette cards for collecting and trading in the United States. The first tobacco company to employ female labor, by 1886 they had 1,100 employees, predominantly girls, who rolled the cigarettes. The Company history ended when in 1880, Allen and Ginter offered a prize for the invention of the machine able to roll cigarettes. Inventor James Albert Bonsack won the prize. But all but one of the large tobacco manufacturers, including Allen and Ginter itself, declined to buy the machine because it was not 100% reliable. James Buchanan Duke did buy the machine invention in 1885 and by 1890 he had consolidated his four major competitors, including Allen & Ginter, and formed the American Tobacco Company. The "Allen & Ginter Company" was no more, but Lewis Ginter sat on the board of the American Tobacco Company.

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allen and ginter albumen ephemera card alice lingard alice lingard actresses actresses series type virginia brights cigarettes 1880 s women albumen prints prints 19th century early photography metropolitan museum of art
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1888
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Trade cards by Allen & Ginter

Allen and Ginter tobacco company published trading cards in 1888-89. Originally used to provide extra stiffness to a cigarette pack, the cards served as advertisement for various Allen and Ginter tobacco brands.

Allen & Ginter

First collectible cigarette cards in the United States.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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President of Chile, from World's Sovereigns series (N34) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Eight-year old Jack on a Western Massachusetts farm. He is a type of child who is being overworked in many rural districts. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August, 1915. Location: Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts.

Washington, D.C. Miss Alice Blackwell, an employee of the U.S. Geological Survey, Alaska branch, is checking control point of the base manuscript

Fox, from the Quadrupeds series (N21) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

portrait from "[A History of England: combining the various histories by Rapin, Henry, Hume, Smollett and Belsham: corrected by reference to Turner, Lingard, Mackintosh ... and other sources. Compiled and arranged by F. G. Tomlins. Stereotype edition.]"

[Francis Watts Lee and Alice Lee]

Star witness before Dies Committee. Washington, D.C., May 22. Dudley P. Gilbert, New York socialite, who has been financial angel for an undercover nationwide anti-Semitic and anti-communist movement, today told the Dies Committee Investigating Un-American Activities that the American people will 'have to rise under some American officer of the Franco type' if a 'red revolution' is to be averted

Alice, la Belle Pèlerine - Public domain drawing

W.A. Brady & Alice Brady Crane - Public domain photograph

Jm. Herrald & Alice Roberts, 3/9/21

From the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 5) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

Piping Crow-shrike, from the Song Birds of the World series (N23) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

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allen and ginter albumen ephemera card alice lingard alice lingard actresses actresses series type virginia brights cigarettes 1880 s women albumen prints prints 19th century early photography metropolitan museum of art