Cigars
and chewing tobacco were the two main forms of tobacco used
in the late 1800s. Pipes were also popular, but cigarettes
had not yet reached their current popularity. This trade card shows a
fanciful scene where two frogs, evidently sailors on the
ships shown behind them, are enjoying the various tobacco
products of the Austin, Nichols Co., New York. Printed by Donaldson
Brothers, Five Points, N.Y., this card is shown at seventy
percent of its actual size.
Tobacco
