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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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Greece.

Greece.

Cigarette card, 1889

Coins of All Nations (Duke's Cigarettes)

George Arents Collection, The New York Public Library. "Greece." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1850 - 1959. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47de-3509-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

King George of Greece.

King George of Greece.

Photograph

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. "King George of Greece." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-c3da-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Family of Greek priest at Daulis.

Family of Greek priest at Daulis.

Photograph, 1889

Scull, S. A. (Sarah Amelia) (b. 1833) (Photographer)

The New York Public Library. "Family of Greek priest at Daulis -- Greece" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1889. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-fd83-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Greek soldiers, ca. 1918.

Greek soldiers, ca. 1918.

Photograph

The New York Public Library. "Greek soldiers, ca. 1918" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-e66c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Greek woman late 19th--20th c.

Greek woman late 19th--20th c.

Photograph

The New York Public Library. "Greek woman late 19th--20th c" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-143b-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99