From the Girls and Children series (N64) promoting Virginia Brights Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products 1886

This colorful trade card, created in 1886 by Allen & Ginter, promotes "Virginia Brights" cigarettes, a popular brand of tobacco products. Part of a series titled "From the Girls and Children," the card features a young girl in a striped dress holding a broom and a sign reading "Virginia." The whimsical illustration, typical of trade cards from this period, aimed to associate the brand with childhood innocence and everyday life. The card, now part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection, is a valuable example of late 19th-century advertising and the use of visual imagery in promoting consumer goods.