Collection of cigarette cards

Horses

Women

Tobacco

Smoking

Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

Virginia Brights Cigarettes

Old Judge Cigarettes

Cross Cut Cigarettes

Ephemera

Advertisements

Pictorial Works

Portraits

21 cards depict actresses (primarily French) and 3 depict race horses. Tobacco brands include: Kinnney Bro's High Class Cigarettes, Virginia Brights Cigarettes, Old Judge Cigarettes, and Cross Cut Cigarettes..

Front of image: Slow horses, fast wimmen [sic]!

Cards mounted on the back of a reproduction of Van Gogh's Vase with Twelve Sunflowers, 28x36

Original image: Philadelphia General Hospital Photograph Collection, Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, box 29, photo no. 2

Philadelphia General Hospital was originally part of the Philadelphia Almshouse, which was founded in 1731 for the city’s poor, elderly and indigent. Nicknamed “Old Blockley,” because of its location in Blockley Township of West Philadelphia, the hospital was renamed Philadelphia General Hospital in 1919. The hospital eventually closed in 1977. The images in this collection have been compiled from a number of sources but appear to be predominantly from the personal photo albums of attending physicians.

Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

1890

StillImage

PGH_29_2

24 cards mounted on cardboard (1 sheet) : some col.

7 x 4 cm