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R.D. Sears, Champion American Lawn Tennis Player, from World's Champions, Series 2 (N29) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

H.W. Slocum, Jr., Lawn Tennis Champion of New England 1887/88, from World's Champions, Second Series (N43) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Charles H. Getzien [sic], Pitcher, Detroit, from World's Champions, Second Series (N43) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Charles H. Getzien [sic], Pitcher, Detroit, from World's Champions, Second Series (N43) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

James Ryan, Center Fielder, Chicago, from World's Champions, Second Series (N43) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

James Ryan, Center Fielder, Chicago, from World's Champions, Second Series (N43) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Thomas Pettitt, Court Tennis Champion, from World's Champions, Second Series (N43) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Thomas Pettit, Court Tennis Champion, from World's Champions, Series 2 (N29) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

H.W. Slocum, Jr., Lawn Tennis Champion of New England 1887/88, from World's Champions, Series 2 (N29) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

R.D. Sears, Champion American Lawn Tennis Player, from World's Champions, Second Series (N43) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

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Trade cards from "World's Champions," Second Series (N43), issued in 1888 in a set of 50 cards to promote Allen & Ginter brand cigarettes.

Allen & Ginter (American, Richmond, Virginia)

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

map from "The Earth: a descriptive history of the phenomena of the life of the Globe ... (The Ocean, Atmosphere and Life; being the second series of A descriptive history of the phenomena of the life of the Globe, etc.) Translated by ... B. B. Woodward and edited by H. Woodward ... Illustrated, etc"

Baseball players - Unidentified baseball player in dark uniform - catching form

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Dr. Stephen Hull Sears, Marianne B. Sears, Henrietta F. Sears, and Laura Helen Sears

[Assignment: 59-CF-DS-32800-06] Visit of figure-skating star Michelle Kwan to State, where she joined Secretary Condoleezza Rice and Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Karen Hughes in the Treaty Room for the announcement of Kwan's appointment as the first American Public Diplomacy Envoy. [In the role, Kwan, a five-time World Champion and two-time Olympic medalist, will reach out to international young people by visiting their schools and clubs to speak about leadership and to engage them in dialogue on social and educational issues.] [Photographer: Ann Thomas--State] [59-CF-DS-32800-06_DSC0269.JPG]

map from "The Earth: a descriptive history of the phenomena of the life of the Globe ... (The Ocean, Atmosphere and Life; being the second series of A descriptive history of the phenomena of the life of the Globe, etc.) Translated by ... B. B. Woodward and edited by H. Woodward ... Illustrated, etc"

map from "The Earth: a descriptive history of the phenomena of the life of the Globe ... (The Ocean, Atmosphere and Life; being the second series of A descriptive history of the phenomena of the life of the Globe, etc.) Translated by ... B. B. Woodward and edited by H. Woodward ... Illustrated, etc"

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allen and ginter lindner eddy and claus ephemera lithographs planographic prints prints sears champion american lawn tennis player champion american lawn tennis player second series allen ginter cigarettes trade cards series 19th century high resolution tradecard ultra high resolution metropolitan museum of art