Old Orchard Beach, Maine, from the Surf Beauties series (N232), issued by Kinney Bros.
Medium
Commercial color lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 1 1/2 × 2 3/4 in. (3.8 × 7 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ephemera
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick
Accession Number
Burdick 218, N232.50
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the vibrant world of late 19th-century American advertising with *Old Orchard Beach, Maine a charming chromolithograph from Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company's Surf Beauties series (N), issued in 1889. This petite print, measuring just 1 1/2 × 2 3/4 inches, captures the allure of a popular Maine seaside resort, showcasing women in fashionable beach attire against sandy shores and ocean waves. As part of a collectible series inserted into tobacco packages, it reflects the era's booming cigarette card craze, where companies like Kinney Bros. used eye-catching imagery to boost sales and e...
About the Artist
Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company · 1869–2011
**Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company (1869–2011)** Founded around 1869 by Francis Sherwood Kinney in New York City, the Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company quickly rose to prominence in the burgeoning American cigarette industry. Francis, a pioneering tobacco manufacturer, experimented with hand-rolled cigarettes using blends of Turkish and Virginia tobacco, scaling to mass production by employing Europ...