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Actress in costume standing on wooden pedestal, from the Transparencies series (N137) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

late 1880s
Commercial color lithograph
10.6 × 6.4 cm (4.2 × 2.5 in)

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