Selling Smoke: Tobacco Advertising and Anti-Smoking Campaigns
Item
Lucky Strike “Cream of the Crop” bridge hands
Title
Lucky Strike “Cream of the Crop” bridge hands
Description
The Lucky Strike “Cream of the Crop” advertising campaign featured actors, such as Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and actresses in magazine ads. These two bridge hands, modeled on the magazine advertisements, are two of “a series of fifty hands arranged by Milton C. Work and packed in ‘Lucky Strike Fifties’.” Jean Harlow (1911-1937) is one of the actresses illustrated.
Subject
Promotions; Bridge
Creator
Lucky Strike
Source
Image from the William Van Duyn Tobacco Advertisement Collection (Ms Coll 20), Medical Historical Library, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University. A finding aid describing the collection is available at http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/med.ms.0020
Publisher
American Tobacco Company
Date
1930s
Contributor
This project has been funded in whole or in part with federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, under Contract No. HHSN276201100010C with the University of Massachusetts, Worcester.
Rights
Images may be used for purposes of research, private study, or education. The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Format
Still image
Language
English
Type
Party favor
Identifier
MS_6689703_003_LS_bridge-cards.jpg
