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Title: Cycle cigarettes
Creator: Rhead, Louis, 1857-1926, artist
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1891
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
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Description: Image of an advertisement for Cycle cigarettes featuring a woman in flowing robes with ivy woven into the braids in her hair reaching towards the sun.
Item originally owned by illustrator Curtis Wager-Smith (1870-1950). "Louis Rhead"--text, artist's signature on stone, bottom left of image. "Copyrighted 1891"--text, bottom right margin. "20 in a box for 5¢"--text, top right of image. "The best that can be made for the money."--text, bottom right of image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 63.18 x 44.45 cm (24 7/8 x 17 1/2 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ART_003283
502412
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/5397
Language: English
Subject: Advertising--Tobacco
Sun--Pictorial works
Women--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Artist Posters
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The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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