Card Collections (The 1920's)

During the 1920's several people began to collect the cards that appeared in cigarette boxes. Used as method of luring customers, the cards had been distributed in the same way before World War I. The younger generation also collected such cards, which displayed pictures of different subjects.

Applet written by Eric C. Harshbarger of Sun Microsystems' New Media Group. © Copyright 1998, Sun Microsystems, Inc