Yum Yum Tobacco (N403) – Historic Print
(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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This rare historic photograph captures Yum Yum Tobacco (N403) in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Yum Yum Tobacco (N403)
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This 1888 card advertises Yum Yum Tobacco and is catalogued as N403, a number from the N-series of tobacco cards that the Library's record places in the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection. Issued by August Beck & Company, it is an albumen photographic print, a process more often associated with portraits than with the chromolithographs that dominated most tobacco inserts of the period. Cards like this were packed with cigarettes or tobacco to stiffen the package and encourage repeat purchases, so the surviving examples preserve both the baseball imagery of the 1880s and the marketing methods of the cigarette trade.
| Created / published | 1888 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | Baseball cards 1880-1890.Albumen prints 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: August Beck & Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,811 × 4,740 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220474 |
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