The Accumulative Instinct, from the Snapshots from "Puck" series (N128) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco 1888

"The Accumulative Instinct" is a humorous chromolithograph from the "Snapshots from 'Puck'" series, created in 1888 by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco. The image depicts a man in a top hat entering a home, where a woman holds a baby who is standing on a chair. The illustration is a caricature, playing on the common perception of babies as being greedy and demanding. This card, now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, exemplifies the use of humorous imagery in turn-of-the-century advertising.