Colonel A. A. Pope, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes 1888

This is a chromolithograph, a type of color printing using a stone, created in 1888 by Allen & Ginter, the company that made the Allen & Ginter Cigarettes. This is a printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album. It features a portrait of Colonel A. A. Pope, an American inventor and bicycle manufacturer who is best known for his role in the development of the safety bicycle and his founding of the Pope Manufacturing Company. The image, like the other samples, is a small and simple lithograph in the style of a trading card. This card is currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.