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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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Sandwich Is.

Sandwich Is.

Cigarette card, 1889

Coins of All Nations (Duke's Cigarettes)

George Arents Collection, The New York Public Library. "Sandwich Is." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1850 - 1959. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47de-3531-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Hawaiian school children.

Hawaiian school children.

Stereograph, 1850 - 1930

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "Hawaiian school children." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1850 - 1930. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-5984-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii, 1838-1917.

Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii, 1838-1917.

Portrait

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. "Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii, 1838-1917." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e2-c217-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Les Iles Sandwich (supplices).

Les Iles Sandwich (supplices).

Print

The New York Public Library. "Les Iles Sandwich (supplices)" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-1cd1-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Hula girls at Honolulu.

Hula girls at Honolulu.

Photograph, 1899

The New York Public Library. "Hula girls at Honolulu" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1899. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-12c6-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

The newly crowned King of the Sandwich Islands. Kamehameha IV, King of the Hawaiian Islands, 1834-1863.

The newly crowned King of the Sandwich Islands. Kamehameha IV, King of the Hawaiian Islands, 1834-1863.

Portrait

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. "The newly crowned King of the Sandwich Islands. (From a photograph by Whipple, of Boston.)" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a14b119e-bb8b-d64b-e040-e00a180614aa