Trade card for Hassan cigarettes, "World's Greatest Explorers" series

trade card

Trade card for Hassan cigarettes, "World's Greatest Explorers" series; color lithograph copy of painting by Albert Operti, portrait of Dr. Elisha Kane, physician and arctic explorer who was on both Grinnell Expeditions in search of Sir John Franklin; printed on back is biography and advertisement for Hassan cork tip cigarettes, "The Oriental Smoke/ THE LARGEST SELLING/ BRAND OF CIGARETTES IN AMERICA." Companion cards 2003.4.20-23. Fred Calabretta notes: This cigarette or tobacco card issued by the Hassan Company depicts famous Arctic explorer Elisha Kane. Cards such as this were issued after the chromolithograph trade card craze had ended, but they were influenced by the earlier cards.