Name/Title
Cigarette advertising card: Annie Sommerville in Colors of Hoboken Yacht Club, issued by W. Duke & Sons, N.Y., 1890.Entry/Object ID
2013.005.0106Description
Cigarette advertising card [N91]: Annie Sommerville in Colors of Hoboken Yacht Club; issued by W. Duke & Sons, New York, no date (1889.) Color lithography, cardstock 1-7/16" wide x 2-13/16" high, rounded corners, printed both sides.
This card was part of a "Yacht Club Colors of the World" series issued by the tobacco company. The full series had fifty cards, un-numbered, for the clubs listed on the back. See notes for full text.
There were two different issues of this card. The one present here is from the Duke N91 series. (There was a reprint in 1890 done in larger format - see archives 2001.104.0001 - this was a series called N140.)
Imprint: Knapp & Co., Lithographers, New York. (Imprint is found on back.)
Annie Sommerville (while printed as Sommerville, the name has been seen as Somerville or Summerville) was a nineteenth century actress. An albumen photo of her appears on other tobacco cards of the period such as the Actress Series for Duke's Cameo Cigarettes; Photos from Life series (N152) for Duke's Preferred Stock Cigarettes; Annie Summerville, Corsair Co., from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 6) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes.
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A citation for a Metropolitan Museum of Art record for this card is in notes.Acquisition
Accession
2013.005Source or Donor
Lukacs, ClaireAcquisition Method
GiftCredit Line
Museum Collections. Gift of a Friend of the Museum.General Notes
Note
Notes: 2001.104.0001
Yacht Club Colors
OF THE WORLD
Madison
New York
Royal Harwich
Boston
Eastern
Prospect Park Model
Central Hudson
New Brunswick
Oceanic
Riverside
Columbia
Royal Bermuda
Manhattan
Dorchester
Brooklyn
Atlantic
Hudson River
Long Island
New Jersey
Hoboken
Union
Williamsburgh
Cruising
Royal Yorkshire
Lynn
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Norddeutscher
Larchmont
Royal Belgian
Portland
Haverhill
Royal Welsh
Royal Irish
Paris
Black Sea
Bunker Hill
St. Augustine
Royal Sail
Royal Canadian
Berliner
Danish
Amer'n Canoe Ass'n
St. Petersburg Imp'l [Imperial]
Mud Hook
Glenelg
Royal Cork
Beverly
Seawanhaka
Isle of Purbeck
Calshot Castle
Royal Squadron
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Packed in
DUKE CIGARETTES
KNAPP & CO., LITHOGRAPHERS, N.Y.
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Reference from:
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick
Knapp & Company; W. Duke, Sons & Co.
Annie Sommerville in Colors of the Hoboken Yacht Club, from the Yacht Colors of the World series (N91) for Duke brand cigarettes
Issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. (New York and Durham, N.C.)
Date: 1889
Accession Number: Burdick 204, N91.20
Status: OK
Status By: dw
Status Date: 2006-04-13
