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Card 864, Clara Morris, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 2) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes
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Picryl description: Public domain image, 19th-century actress, cigarette card, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Cigarette cards are trading cards issued by tobacco manufacturers to stiffen cigarette packaging and advertise cigarette brands.
Clara Morris was an American stage actress who was active during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Productions: "East Lynne," "Camille," and "The Two Orphans." She also wrote several plays and essays about her experiences as an actress. Despite her success, Clara Morris struggled with alcoholism and financial difficulties throughout her life.
Allen and Ginter, a tobacco manufacturing company founded in 1865 by John Allen and Lewis Ginter in Richmond, Virginia, created the first cigarette cards for collecting and trading in the United States. The first tobacco company to employ female labor, by 1886 they had 1,100 employees, predominantly girls, who rolled the cigarettes. The Company history ended when in 1880, Allen and Ginter offered a prize for the invention of the machine able to roll cigarettes. Inventor James Albert Bonsack won the prize. But all but one of the large tobacco manufacturers, including Allen and Ginter itself, declined to buy the machine because it was not 100% reliable. James Buchanan Duke did buy the machine invention in 1885 and by 1890 he had consolidated his four major competitors, including Allen & Ginter, and formed the American Tobacco Company. The "Allen & Ginter Company" was no more, but Lewis Ginter sat on the board of the American Tobacco Company.
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