Title: Smoke Sledge Cigarettes. The Only First Class Cigarette Sold 20 for 5 cents
Author: **
Description: Chromolithograph on heavy card stock. 17x23¾".Seven rag-tag African American children sit on top of the shingled roof of a shack, laughing and having fun but not smoking; in the lower margin is the caption "Seven Pickaninnies." This was one of a series of pictures you could get free from Liggett & Myers if you sent in 20 Sledge Cigarettes box fronts.
Heading: (Advertising Chromolithograph)Place Published: St. Louis
Publisher: Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co.
Date Published: 1896
Author: **
Description: Chromolithograph on heavy card stock. 17x23¾".Seven rag-tag African American children sit on top of the shingled roof of a shack, laughing and having fun but not smoking; in the lower margin is the caption "Seven Pickaninnies." This was one of a series of pictures you could get free from Liggett & Myers if you sent in 20 Sledge Cigarettes box fronts.
Heading: (Advertising Chromolithograph)Place Published: St. Louis
Publisher: Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co.
Date Published: 1896
Condition report
Some rubbing and wear, corners creased, showing, several holes at top of image, good to very good.
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Americana - Travel & Exploration
1:00 PM PT - Apr 17th, 2008
offered by
PBA Galleries
133 Kearny Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
San Francisco, CA 94108
