Facsimile of card verso from Set 1 of the Contentnea series (T209, Set 1) for the American Tobacco Company to promote Contentnea Cigarettes
American Tobacco Company
1910 · Commercial color lithograph · Drawings and Prints
Trade cards from the "Contentnea" series (T207), issued in 1910 to promote Contentnea Cigarettes distributed by the American Tobacco Company. The series was released in two sets. Set 1 consists of 16 cards depicting commercial color lithographs of baseball players. The second set maintains 222 cards with photolithograph images of baseball players. Both sets portray baseball players from the Virginia League, Carolina Association, and Eastern Carolina Leagues. This facsimile of a card verso from Set 1 is included because versos from the set are not visible as all cards from the series are affixed to the original album page.
- Artist
- American Tobacco Company
- Date
- 1910
- Medium
- Commercial color lithograph
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick