1880's Red Cross Tobacco Lithograph Ad Poster
This isn't a Red Cross baseball card but I thought it was a cool piece and wanted to share:
It is a Lithograph Advertising Poster for the Pierre Abraham Lorillard Tobacco Company's Red Cross Plug Tobacco Brand.
It is quite large and measures overall in frame 46 x 36 inches. It appears to be a lithograph on linen backing.
It is marked Hatch Lithograph Co. New York, NY and most likely comes from the 1880's.
Hatch & Co. specialized in producing fine chromolithographic prints, certificates, labels and advertising, and by the mid-1870’s trade cards. In 1887 they reorganized as the Hatch Litho Co. but they were out of business by 1889.
It is really dirty and I am trying to figure if I should bring it to a conservator. Anyone have experience with that sort of thing?
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