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The Colored Race / Cold Comfort, from the Jokes series (N118) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

ca. 1891
Commercial color lithograph
10.8 × 6.2 cm (4.3 × 2.4 in)

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