Card Number 332, Lulu Mortimer, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes 1880s

This trade card from the 1880s depicts actress Lulu Mortimer, promoting Duke’s Cameo Cigarettes. Part of a series of trade cards issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co., the image shows Mortimer seated on a rock, gazing directly at the viewer. The card is a prime example of 19th-century advertising and a valuable artifact for understanding the history of tobacco marketing and the American theater. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City holds this small, yet historically significant, artifact.