Trading cards included in cigarette packaging

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Air raid wardens and civilian volunteer despatch-rider / W.D. & H.O. Wills.

Triangular bandage for the shoulder / W.D. & H.O. Wills.

Rubber clothing / W.D. & H.O. Wills.

[1934 cigarette card (no.25 in a series of 50 : Believe it or not) featuring Tom Thumb, who had kissed 1,500,00 women in 3 years. From Carreras high class cigarettes (Arcadia Works, London)].

Darwin : "the descent of man".

The civilian duty respirator / W.D. & H.O. Wills.

The civilian respirator : how to adjust it / W.D. & H.O. Wills.

Volunteer mobile corps (owner drivers) / W.D. & H.O. Wills.

Body stretching / [British American Tobacco].

Microscope / W.D. & H.O. Wills.

The civilian respirator : how to remove it / W.D. & H.O. Wills.

Incendiary bomb cooling down / Wills's Cigarettes.

Horizontal half-standing / [British American Tobacco].

Knee lifting and trunk bending / [British American Tobacco].

Accident prevention ephemera. Box 5.

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Cigarette cards

Images from the collections

Images of Cigarette cards

Works from the collections

Incendiary bomb cooling down / Wills's Cigarettes.

Horizontal half-standing / [British American Tobacco].

Knee lifting and trunk bending / [British American Tobacco].

Accident prevention ephemera. Box 5.

Microscope / W.D. & H.O. Wills.

Cigarette cards

Images from the collections

Images of Cigarette cards

Works from the collections

Incendiary bomb cooling down / Wills's Cigarettes.

Horizontal half-standing / [British American Tobacco].

Knee lifting and trunk bending / [British American Tobacco].

Accident prevention ephemera. Box 5.

Microscope / W.D. & H.O. Wills.

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