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Card Number 5, Lillian Russell, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

1880s
Albumen photograph
6.6 × 3.7 cm (2.6 × 1.5 in)

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