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DETAILS:Original cabinet card advertisement photograph for Allen & GintersTobacco, Richmond Straight Cut No. 1 Cigarettes. Circa 1887. From the Allen & Ginters Cabinet PhotoGirl Cyclists series(H807)which was later issuedas part of the cigarette card setN49. Features an unidentified female cyclist atop a penny farthington large wheel bicycle.Among the earliest examples of branded marketing aimed at women who had begun to enter the workforce in greater numbers with the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The message that it intends to convey is that cigarette rollingwas something women could do, alongside leisure pursuits like baseball and cycling. Scarce. We have searched the past20 years of online sales historyas well asOCLC academic institutional holdings and have been unable to find anotherexample of this photo cabinet card. Possibly the only example left in existence. Measures 4.25\" x 6.5\" inches.
Oxxbridge Galleries
Established 1987
Oxxbridge Galleries was founded in 1987 and specializes in vintage paper itemswith a large selection of historical and 19th Century tintypes, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, as well as other types of early photography.We invite everyone to visit our storeto see our entireinventory.
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