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Guide to the P.W.R. Sexty Cigarette Cards of Ships and Locomotives, ca. 1930-1939
MISC 915  
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Description
The cards are mounted in a W.D., and H.O. Will's Cigarettes (Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain) card album, probably dating from the early 1930s. The album is completely filled with commemorative cards representing ships and other floating objects, i.e. barges, dredges, buoys (5 pages), and locomotives of Britain, the British Commonwealth, and other countries (5 pages). Each card (1.5 x 2.0 inches) was presumably offered with a package of Will's cigarettes as a market promotion. Each card is in brilliant color and contains on the back pertinent facts relating to the object shown on the front. The collection of maritime objects ranges from working ships, passenger ships, warships, to miscellaneous craft. The locomotives shown represent the major locomotives in use in their respective countries at the time. There are 50 railway cards and 50 maritime cards.
Extent
1 v. (100 cards)
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Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
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