Jennesse, from the Actors and Actresses series (N171) for Old Judge Cigarettes 1886 - 1890

"Jennesse" is a trade card featuring a woman in a performance costume, likely a dancer or an actress, holding a veil in her right hand, a part of a series of trade cards created by Goodwin & Company, an American lithography firm, between 1886 and 1890 for Old Judge Cigarettes. This card, now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is a small-scale printed ephemera illustrating the popularity of card collecting in the 19th century. These cards are notable for their detailed visual representations of popular entertainment of the time.