From the Girls and Children series (N58) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products 1887

This is a trade card from the "From the Girls and Children series (N58)" produced by Allen & Ginter in 1887. It features a young child, dressed in a plaid kilt, and promotes the "Our Little Beauties" brand of cigarettes produced by Allen & Ginter. This trade card, now part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection, is an example of the 19th-century advertising practice of using children to appeal to consumers. The image demonstrates the social norms of the time period as it uses a romanticized imagery of a child to promote a product that is now considered harmful.