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

This is one of a series of trade cards, known as "cigarette cards", created by the Allen & Ginter brand in 1887 to promote their "Our Little Beauties" brand of cigarettes. The image shows a young woman, dressed in a green dress and a feathered headdress, with wings sprouting from her back. The card, typical of the genre, used seductive imagery to market a product. These cards were popular collectibles at the time and are now prized by collectors of ephemera. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has several of these cards in their collection.