Issued by Allen & Ginter | James Watt, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Printer's samples for the collector's album "World's Inventors" (A25), issued in 1888 to promote Allen & Ginter brand cigarettes. Citing Burdick's "The American Card Catalog": "Souvenir albums of this type, as issued by the tobacco companies, were probably intended to replace the individual cards if the smoker so desired, or at least enable him to own the entire collection of designs without the difficulty attendant to obtaining all the individual cards in a set

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