From the Sports Girls series (N463) for Old Port Plug Tobacco

From the Sports Girls series (N463) for Old Port Plug Tobacco

Old Port Plug Tobacco

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The "Sports Girls" series of trading cards (N463) was issued by Old Port Plug Tobacco in the late 1880's to promote the company's tobacco products. This series was issued twice, by Cameron & Sizer and Old Port Plug. Each version of the series is identical except for the tobacco company named on the card recto.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

From the Sports Girls series (N463) for Old Port Plug TobaccoFrom the Sports Girls series (N463) for Old Port Plug TobaccoFrom the Sports Girls series (N463) for Old Port Plug TobaccoFrom the Sports Girls series (N463) for Old Port Plug TobaccoFrom the Sports Girls series (N463) for Old Port Plug Tobacco

The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.