Newsboys Playing Cards, Newsboy Cigars advertisement – Vintage Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic image captures Newsboys Playing Cards, Newsboy Cigars advertisement in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Newsboys Playing Cards, Newsboy Cigars advertisement
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Newsboys sit around a card game beneath a painted sign advertising Newsboy cigars, a detail that ties the scene to the commerce that shaped street life for young sellers. Children who hawked papers on city corners often spent their idle hours in exactly this way, trading pennies and stories while they waited for the next edition to come off the press. The cigar sign itself was a common form of late nineteenth and early twentieth century advertising, and it hints at how brands borrowed the newsboy's scrappy image to sell tobacco. Worth noticing are the worn caps, the close-cropped attention of the players, and the way a casual pastime and a commercial pitch share the same frame.
| Original scan | 6,486 × 8,272 px · prints to 22 × 28 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 09476u |
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