Cigarette Card Album
date: label: date made
content: 1890's
notes: label: Description
content: The Cigarette Card album is made from a composition book with a soft cover illustrated with a diamond drawing of a young girl.. Glued to the outside of the front cover is a rectangular scrap of paper covering the face. Inside the front cover handwritten in ink is a list of subjects: "Algebra, Latin, Philosophy, Physical Geography, Arithmetic, Grammar, History, Writing, Singing, Drawing, Definition". On page one there is handwritten in pencil text about algebra. On the reverse is written "Lillie Post". The album contains approximately 30 pages with 12 Cigarette Cards per page. The cards promote the cigarette brands: Dukes's Cameo, Virginia Brights, Admiral, and Wm. S. Kimball and Co. The last page of the book includes a penciled handwritten copy of the solicitation for "Cabinet Pictures" found on the back of many Cabinet Cards, "F. J. Walsh, No 353 Perry Street, Trenton, N.J." The back of the cover includes multiplication tables and the date Monday, May 22, 1892.
label: Description
content: The cards identified the folllowing personalities: Lillie Post, Virginia Harness, Minnie Seligman, Minnie S. Cutter, Georgia Cayvan, Miss Rowe, Beatrice Cameron, Marie Jansen, Mary Mills, Mlle Royer, Gladys Rankin, Fannie Davenport, Dorthy Dene, Elvira Barry, Mrs. Cleveland, Eugenie Blair, Elsie Lombard, Mavel Love, Freddie Huke, Miss Constance Gilchrist, Bessie Cleveland, Cora Macy, Miss Namer, Dora Leslie, Louise Henderson, Edith Hyman, Emily Bancker, Phyllis Broughton, Pauline Hall, Isabelle, Miss Fortes, Miss Mason, Mlle DeMarsy, Mlle Germain, Mme Oseanec, Mlle Geraldine, Miss Gale, Maud Wentworth, No 129 Helen Bruno, Geraldine McCann, Mme Lillas, May Perkins, Fanny Edwards, Miss Booth, Miss Raymond, Vesta Victoria, Mlle Bosch, Miss Stewart, Miss Butler, Mlle Detchen, 221. Lilian Land, Susie Kirwin, Miss Linthicum, Miss Eastlake, Lotta (Crabtree), Alice Shepard, Mlle Zizi, Mlle Marriott, Mlle DeLaPorte, Annie Cole, Eva Sebie, Anna O'Keefe, Fannie Davenport.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PG.69.132.2
label: catalog number
content: 69.132
objectType: label: Object Name
content: album
label: Object Name
content: Album
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cardstock (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: leatherette (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 cm x 17.5 cm x 5 cm; 8 9/32 in x 6 7/8 in x 1 31/32 in