Coney Island, from the Fancy Bathers series (N187) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co. 1889

"Coney Island, from the Fancy Bathers series (N187) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co." is a colorful chromolithograph from 1889 depicting a woman in a bathing suit standing in the water at Coney Island. The image is part of a series of cards produced by the Wm. S. Kimball & Company, a popular tobacco manufacturer who created these cards to be included in cigarette packs as promotional items. This card, like many others in the series, features a beautiful woman engaged in a leisure activity popular at the time, highlighting the burgeoning leisure culture of the late 19th century. The card is part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection.