From the Girls and Children series (N64) promoting Virginia Brights Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products 1886

This trade card from 1886 advertises Virginia Brights cigarettes, a brand of tobacco products manufactured by Allen & Ginter. Part of a series called "From the Girls and Children," the card depicts a young girl stirring a pot, likely as a domestic metaphor for the supposed ease of smoking Virginia Brights. The illustration is typical of the colorful chromolithography style of the period and uses a sentimental image to promote the brand. This trade card is now part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection in New York City.