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

This 1886 trade card from Allen & Ginter promotes "Virginia Brights Cigarettes" and is part of a series featuring girls and children. The card depicts a young girl in a pink dress playing a flute while sitting in a lush, green field. The card exemplifies a popular Victorian-era genre of advertising that used charming imagery to promote tobacco products. Today, these cards are highly sought after by collectors of ephemera and are considered important artifacts of American advertising history.