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Trading card showing a brown glove holding a small portrait of a curly-haired woman, numbered 15, with a gold dotted border.

Card Number 15, cut-out from banner advertising the Opera Gloves series (G29) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter, ca. 1890

Title page of Max Klinger's etched cycle Ein Handschuh, with a small vignette of a woman beside a bull within a decorative bo

Title Page from Ein Handschuh (A Glove). Cyclus von zehn Compositionen radirt. Rad. Opus VI. First edition

Max Klinger, 1881

Etching of fashionably dressed people conversing on a glass-walled terrace, with a seated woman and a small dog at center.

Ort (Place) from Ein Handschuh (A Glove). Cyclus von zehn Compositionen radirt. Rad. Opus VI, Plate I. First edition

Max Klinger, 1881

Etching of a man bending to pick up an object in a park, with a woman, a couple, a small dog and a bandstand behind.

Action (plate two from Paraphrase on the Finding of a Glove)

Max Klinger, 1881

Olive glove with a cut-out window showing a curly-haired child portrait, framed by a beaded border, number 16 at lower left.

Card Number 16, cut-out from banner advertising the Opera Gloves series (G29) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter, ca. 1890

Card Number 17, cut-out from banner advertising the Opera Gloves series (G29) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter, ca. 1890

Card Number 18, cut-out from banner advertising the Opera Gloves series (G29) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter, ca. 1890

Pink glove holding a small portrait of a smiling young woman in a lace bonnet, framed by a gold dotted border, card No. 19.

Card Number 19, cut-out from banner advertising the Opera Gloves series (G29) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter, ca. 1890

Gold glove with cut-out portrait of a woman with upswept hair, numbered 20, in a dotted border, cigarette advertising card.

Card Number 20, cut-out from banner advertising the Opera Gloves series (G29) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter, ca. 1890

Card Number 21, cut-out from banner advertising the Opera Gloves series (G29) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter, ca. 1890

Green glove with a child's portrait in a pink hat over the palm, numbered 22, framed by a gold dotted border.

Card Number 22, cut-out from banner advertising the Opera Gloves series (G29) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter, ca. 1890

Trade card with a brown glove and a portrait of a smiling young woman with curly hair, numbered 23, in a dotted border.

Card Number 23, cut-out from banner advertising the Opera Gloves series (G29) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter, ca. 1890

Chromolithograph of a brown glove with a portrait of a woman in a red hat, numbered 24, framed by gold dot border.

Card Number 24, cut-out from banner advertising the Opera Gloves series (G29) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter, ca. 1890

Chromolithograph of a yellow glove with a cut-out revealing a portrait of a curly-haired woman, numbered 25.

Card Number 25, cut-out from banner advertising the Opera Gloves series (G29) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter, ca. 1890

Chromolithograph portrait of bearded elderly Archimedes in an orange robe, labeled with his name, from an 1888 cigarette card

Archimedes, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter, 1888

Chromolithograph trading card portrait of a white-haired man in a blue coat and striped waistcoat, labeled Sir R. Arkwright.

Sir R. Arkwright, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter, 1888

Chromolithograph trade card portrait of Sir W. G. Armstrong in dark suit and bow tie, teal background, red border.

Sir W. G. Armstrong, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter, 1888

Chromolithographed trade card portrait of an older bald man with white hair in a dark coat, labeled E. B. Bigelow.

E. B. Bigelow, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter, 1888

Chromolithograph card portrait of Gail Borden, an older bald man with a white beard in a dark suit and bow tie.

Gail Borden, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter, 1888

Chromolithograph portrait of Edmund Cartwright, a man with white wavy hair in a blue coat and white cravat.

Edmund Cartwright, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter, 1888

Chromolithographed portrait card of a bearded man in dark jacket and bow tie, labeled Sam. Colt.

Samuel Colt, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter, 1888

Chromolithograph portrait of L. J. M. Daguerre, a man with curly hair and moustache in a dark cravat, on a red-bordered card.

L. J. M. Daguerre, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter, 1888

Chromolithograph portrait of a bearded man in a blue military uniform labeled J. A. Dahlgren, on a tan ground.

J. A. Dahlgren, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter, 1888

Printed card portrait of a man with hand on chin, labeled Sir H. Davy, green background, Allen & Ginter 1888.

Sir H. Davy, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter, 1888

Chromolithographed portrait of an older white-haired man in a dark suit, labeled N. von Dreysse, on a red-bordered card.

N. von Dreysse, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter, 1888

Chromolithographed portrait card of a bearded man in a dark jacket and bow tie, labeled J. B. Eads.

J. B. Eads, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter, 1888

Chromolithograph portrait of Thomas A. Edison in a dark suit and tie against a gray-green background, with his name below.

Thomas A. Edison, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter, 1888

Chromolithograph portrait of a bald, bearded man in a dark coat, captioned J. Ericsson, from an 1888 cigarette card sample.

J. Ericsson, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter, 1888

Chromolithograph portrait of an elderly bearded man in spectacles and bow tie, captioned Th. Fairbanks, on a red-bordered car

Thaddeus Fairbanks, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter, 1888

Chromolithograph trade card portrait of a man with swept dark hair and white cravat, captioned Jos. Fraunhofer.

Joseph Fraunhofer, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter, 1888