#cigarette cards
People don’t often look back on the early 1900’s for advice, but what if we could actually learn something from the Lost Generation? The New York Public Library has digitized 100 “how to do it” cards found in cigarette boxes over 100 years ago, and the tips they give are so practical that millennials reading this might want to take notes.
Back in the day, cigarette cards were popular collectibles included in every pack, and displayed photos of celebrities, advertisements, and more. Gallaher cigarettes, a UK-founded tobacco company that was once the largest in the world, decided to print a series of helpful how-to’s on their cards, which ranged from mundane tasks (boiling potatoes) to unlikely scenarios (stopping a runaway horse). Most of them are insanely clever, though, like how to make a fire extinguisher at home. Who even knew you could do that?
The entire set of life hacks is now part of the NYPL’s George Arents Collection. Check out some of the cleverest ones we could find below. You never know when you’ll have to clean real lace!
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I’d just like to share the cigarette cards I’ve acquired recently they’re 106 years old and come in a set of 50 but these ones remind me of red dead
King Constantine of the Hellenes, eldest child of Olga Konstantinovna.
He was named after his Russian grandfather, Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich, but the name was enthusiastically received in Greece as there was a legend that a King Constantine would reconquer Constantinople.
Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse, mother of Elizaveta Feodorovna and Alexandra Feodorovna.
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Romanov relative: Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark
Cigarette card featuring a young Boris of Bulgaria.
When Boris was two years old his father Ferdinand I, hoping to repair relations with Russia, and the infant prince convert from Catholicism to Orthodoxy, and named Tsar Nicholas II as one of the godfathers.
Before WWI the more gossipy press often suggested that Boris would one day marry one of Nicholas II’s daughters, usually the third, Maria, who was only in her early teens. Examples here,hereand here.
Prince, later King, Nicholas I of Montenegro.
His daughter Militza married Grand Duke Petr Nikolaevich, and his daughter Anastasia “Stana” married first George Maximilianovich, son of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna, and secondly Petr Nikolaevich’s brother, Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich.
His granddaughter, Elena of Serbia, married Prince Ioann Konstantinovich.
