Turkey Red Cabinets (T3) – 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.)
Description
This rare antique lithograph captures Turkey Red Cabinets (T3) in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Turkey Red Cabinets (T3)
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What sets this card apart is its link to the Turkey Red cigarette brand, one of the labels the American Tobacco Company used to market its products in the early 1910s. Cards like this were packed with cigarettes, where their stiff cardboard protected the smokes and gave buyers a reason to collect the set. The T3 designation places it in the Turkey Red Cabinets series of 1911, printed by chromolithography, a process that layered colored inks to produce bright, detailed images. The hand coloring added over the printed surface is worth a close look, since it shows how the finished card was touched up by hand.
| Created / published | 1911 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph with hand-color. |
| Genre | Baseball cards 1910-1920.Chromolithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,796 × 4,735 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220570 |
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