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[Man, with cigarette holder in mouth, playing cards] – Historic Reproduction

[Man, with cigarette holder in mouth, playing cards], [1930] — historic photograph
[Man, with cigarette holder in mouth, playing cards], [1930]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[Man, with cigarette holder in mouth, playing cards] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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This print is a publicity still from a 1930 film, identified by its caption as Allan Dwan's *Lawful Larceny*. It shows a man with a cigarette holder clamped in his teeth, cards in hand, in a scene built around gambling and the card table. Studios in 1930 were transitioning to sound, and still photographs like this one were produced to advertise films to newspapers and theater managers. The image came to the Library of Congress through the National Photo Company Collection, a Washington, D.C., studio whose negatives document a broad range of early twentieth-century subjects.

Created / published[1930]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreFilm stills 1930.Photographic prints 1930.
NotesCaption at bottom reads Allan Dwan's Lawful Larce ..." National Photo Company Collection."
SubjectsCard games--1930. Gambling--1930. Smoking--1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,276 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-183641

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