DescriptionCigarette advertising card [N91]: Annie Sommerville in Colors of Hoboken Yacht Club; issued by W. Duke & Sons, New York, no date (1889.) Color lithography, cardstock 1-7/16" wide x 2-13/16" high, rounded corners, printed both sides. This card was part of a "Yacht Club Colors of the World" series issued by the tobacco company. The full series had fifty cards, un-numbered, for the clubs listed on the back. See notes for full text. There were two different issues of this card. The one present here is from the Duke N91 series. (There was a reprint in 1890 done in larger format - see archives 2001.104.0001 - this was a series called N140.) Imprint: Knapp & Co., Lithographers, New York. (Imprint is found on back.) Annie Sommerville (while printed as Sommerville, the name has been seen as Somerville or Summerville) was a nineteenth century actress. An albumen photo of her appears on other tobacco cards of the period such as the Actress Series for Duke's Cameo Cigarettes; Photos from Life series (N152) for Duke's Preferred Stock Cigarettes; Annie Summerville, Corsair Co., from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 6) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes. ---- A citation for a Metropolitan Museum of Art record for this card is in notes.