Card Number 40, Olga Brandon, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-4) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes 1880s

This is a collectible card featuring the actress Olga Brandon. It is a part of the “Actors and Actresses” series of trading cards issued by the company W. Duke, Sons & Co. in the 1880s, to promote their Cameo brand cigarettes. The photograph shows a woman sitting in a chair with a book in her lap, looking at the viewer in a contemplative pose, and is representative of the genre of trade cards. The image is of a small size, with a sheet size of 2 11/16 × 1 3/8 in (6.8 × 3.5 cm). The card is currently housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY.