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Duke’s Cigarette Cards
Coins of All Nations, 1889

Case Study #1: Curation

The curated selection of photographs, prints, and drawings for each nation are chosen from the NYPL Digital Collection by doing a keyword search for the nation featured on the cigarette card. Results are narrowed down to the decades preceding and following 1889, the year Duke’s Cigarette Cards, Coins of All Nations was released.
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  • Do the curated materials share visual characteristics with the cigarette card? How are they different?
  • What is the point of view of the curated materials? What narratives are presented?
  • Does seeing the curated materials offer an alternative impression of the caricature on the cigarette card?
  • How might these images have influenced Americans’ idea of people from this nation?
  • Choose a card and create your own set of curated materials using the NYPL Digital Collections.

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Bavaria

Bavaria.

Cigarette card, 1889

Coins of All Nations (Duke's Cigarettes)

George Arents Collection, The New York Public Library. "Bavaria." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1850 - 1959. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47de-34e5-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Germany, Bavaria, 1896

Germany, Bavaria, 1896

Still image, 1896

Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus, 1843-1910 (Collector)

General Research Division, The New York Public Library. "Germany, Bavaria, 1896" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1910. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-da98-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Bavarian man, Wilhelm Schleich, a miner from Hohenpeissenberg, Bavaria.

Bavarian man, Wilhelm Schleich, a miner from Hohenpeissenberg, Bavaria.

Photograph, 1906 - 1914 (Approximate)

Sherman, Augustus F., (Photographer)

Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. "Bavarian man" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1906 - 1914. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-dc89-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

The royal Spanish betrothal : A group at Madrid, taken a few days ago (the queen mother, Prince Ferdinan of Bavaria, the Infanta Maria Teresa [and] King Alfonso)

The royal Spanish betrothal : A group at Madrid, taken a few days ago (the queen mother, Prince Ferdinan of Bavaria, the Infanta Maria Teresa [and] King Alfonso).

Still image, 1905

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. "The royal Spanish betrothal : A group at Madrid, taken a few days ago (the queen mother, Prince Ferdinan of Bavaria, the Infanta Maria Teresa [and] King Alfonso)" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1905. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-4a7f-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Lida Gustava Heymann of München, Bavaria.

Lida Gustava Heymann of München, Bavaria.

Photograph, 1890 - 1960

Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. "Lida Gustava Heymann of München, Bavaria. [Leading German suffragist and feminist. Died in exile, in Switzerland.]" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1890 - 1960. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e2-75e3-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Bavarian man, Wilhelm Schleich, a miner from Hohenpeissenberg, Bavaria.

Bavarian man, Wilhelm Schleich, a miner from Hohenpeissenberg, Bavaria.

Photograph, 1906 - 1914 (Approximate)

Sherman, Augustus F., (Photographer)

Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. "Bavarian man" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1906 - 1914. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-dc7a-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99