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W. Duke, Sons & Co.|Knapp & Company

Denman Thompson as Friesland Skipper in Sunday Clothes, from the set Actors and Actresses, Second Series (N71) for Duke brand cigarettes

1888–90
Commercial color lithograph
7 × 3.8 cm (2.8 × 1.5 in)

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