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Photo provided courtesy of the United States Library of Congress.

General Cigar Company Advertisement

This early 1900's advertisement for the General Cigar Company promotes their "Robert Burns" brand of cigars. If you look closely the model is tempting an owl with a cigar who is holding a cigar smoking pipe in their beak.

The Library of Congress entitled this photo "Temptation".

Temptation
1 photographic print.
Photograph shows a young girl, holding a box of "Robert Burns" cigars, offering a cigar to an owl smoking a pipe.
  • D20836 U.S. Copyright Office
  • No. 37529.
  • Title from item.
  • Miscellaneous Items in High Demand
  • Advertisements--1900.
  • Tobacco--1900.
  • Cigars--1900.
  • Pipes (Smoking)--1900.
  • Photographic prints--1900.
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