Greeting Cards

The Greeting Cards with Smoking Themes collection comprises a variety of cards and postcards related to smoking in that they include images of cigarettes or smoking, advertisements, or smoking language. Included in the collection are birthday cards, get-well cards, Christmas cards, New Year’s Day cards, and Valentine’s Day cards.

Birthday Cards

Birthday Wishes, Dear Nephew

Birthday Card
(Cover)
Dreyfuss Art Co. Inc.
1950s

Birthday Wishes, Dear Nephew

Birthday Card
(Inside)
Dreyfuss Art Co. Inc.
1950s

“Relative Birthday Four-Fold”

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Dreyfuss Art Co. Inc.
1950s

“Relative Birthday Four-Fold”

Advertisment
Dreyfuss Art Co. Inc.
1950s

“King Size Wishes”

Birthday Card
(Cover)
1950s

“Light my cigarette and blow out the flame, and with each puff my wish is the same!”

Birthday Card
(Inside)
1950s

Just Plain Happy Birthday

Birthday Card
(Cover)
1950s

Just Plain Happy Birthday

Birthday Card
(Cover)
1950s

On My Husband’s Birthday

Birthday Card
(Cover)
1950s

On My Husband’s Birthday

Birthday Card
(Cover – Feature)
1950s

On My Husband’s Birthday

Birthday Card
(Inside)
1950s

“I just had to get you this birthday card…”

Birthday Card
(Cover)
Benson & Hedges
Hallmark
1960s

“I just had to get you this birthday card…”

Birthday Card
(Inside)
Benson & Hedges
Hallmark
1960s

“I just had to get you this birthday card…”

Birthday Card
(Rear)
Benson & Hedges
Hallmark
1960s

“A happy birthday to my brother…”

Birthday Card
(Cover)
1950s

“We interrupt this program for a very special annoncement”

Birthday Card
(Cover)
Philip Morris
1950s

“We interrupt this program for a very special annoncement”

Birthday Card
(Inside)
Philip Morris
1950s

“We all go together”

Birthday Card
(Cover)
Philip Morris
1960s

“We all go together”

Birthday Card
(Inside)
Philip Morris
1960s

“Reach fo both Luckies an Sweets on yo Birthday”

Birthday Card
(Cover)
Lucky Strike
1940s

Birthday Greetings

Birthday Card
(Cover)
Philip Morris
1950s

Birthday Greetings

Birthday Card
(Signature)
Philip Morris
1950s

Birthday Greetings

Birthday Card
(Poem)
Philip Morris
1950s

Birthday Greetings

Birthday Card
(Poem)
Philip Morris
1950s

Christmas

Merry Christmas To You

Christmas Card
(Cover)
1950s

Merry Christmas To You

Christmas Card
(Inside)
1950s

“The Season’s Greetings … ‘Passing Show’ cigarettes”

Christmas Cards
(Cover)
1950s

“Merry Christmas”

Christmas Card
(Cover)
1950s

“Merry Christmas”

Christmas Card
(Inside)
1950s

Get Well

Here’s a Pack of Get Well Wishes

Get Well Soon Card
(Cover)
1950s

Here’s a Pack of Get Well Wishes

Get Well Soon Card
(Inside)
1950s

Here’s a Pack of Get Well Wishes

Get Well Soon Card
(Rear)
1950s

Valentines

“A Valentine for my Dizzy Brother!”

Valentine’s Card
(Cover)
1930s

“A Valentine for my Dizzy Brother!”

Valentine’s Card
(Inside)
1930s

“A Valentine for my Dizzy Brother!”

Valentine’s Card
(Inside)
1930s

“I’ll strike it Lucky if you’ll be my Valentine!”

Valentine’s Card
(Cover)
Luck Strike

“What a Lucky Strike you made when you got me”

Valentine’s Card
(Cover)
Luck Strike
1920s

“O Cigaretta I love you better than any other girl.”

Greeting Card
1920s

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Valentine Chesterfield You Certainly Satisfy wm

“You ain’t so mild little girl but you certainly satisfy!”

Valentine’s Card
Chesterfield
Liggett & Meyer Tobacco Co.
1950s

New Years

“A Happy New Year! Help Yourself…”

New Year’s Card
(Front)
1909

“A New Year Greeting for You”

New Year’s Card
(Front)
Liggett & Meyers Tobacco Co.

“A New Year Greeting for You”

New Year’s Card
(Inside)
Liggett & Meyers Tobacco Co.

Postcards

Children Smoking

Post Card
1910s

” I couldn’t get any milk at this hour so I put a cigarette in his nipple.”

Postcard
1930s

“Do Your Cigs Taste Different”

Postcard
(Black & White)

“Do Your Cigs Taste Different”

Postcard
(Color)

“And he needed only six more certificates.”

Postcard
1910s

“Thunder! Can’t get this blessed cigar a-burning!”

Postcard
1910s

Migdal Cigarettes

Postcard
(Front)

Migdal Cigarettes

Postcard
(Rear)

“To greet you may your cares disappear into the ashes.”

Postcard

“Did you give him the Woodbine”

Postcard
1910s

“A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke”

Postcard
1910s

“Wij willen Wings Cigarettes King Size”

Dutch Postcard
1930s

Smoker’s Kisses

Postcard
1910s

To My Friends the Boys

Postcard
1910s

“Deep in the Heart of Texas”

Postcard
1950s

“I’d walk a mile for you baby!”

Postcard
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
1920s

Trading Cards

Compliments of “Old Judge.”

Trading Card
(Front)
Old Judge Cigarettes
Goodwin & Co.
1890s

Compliments of “Old Judge.”

Trading Card
(Back)
Old Judge Cigarettes
Goodwin & Co.
1890s

“Alabama – Cotton, Iron, Coal and their Manufactures”

Trading Card
(Front)
G.W. Gail & Axs Navy

“Alabama – Cotton, Iron, Coal and their Manufactures”

Trading Card
(Back)
G.W. Gail & Axs Navy

“Mild and Sweet Welcome Ciagrettes”

Trading Card
(Front)
Goodwin & Co.

“Mild and Sweet Welcome Ciagrettes”

Trading Card
Goodwin & Co.
(Back)

Father’s Day

“Hi There! Dad…”

Father’s Day Card
(Cover)
1950s

“To my Dad…”

Father’s Day Card
(Cover)
1950s

“To my Dad…”

Father’s Day Card
(Inside)
1950s

Greeting Cards

Curated by Alan Blum, MD

Professor,
Department of Family Medicine
Gerald Leon Wallace, MD, Endowed Chair in Family Medicine
College of Community Health Sciences
Director, Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society
The University of Alabama

Designed by Kevin Bailey, MA

Collections Manager and Digital Archivist
Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society
The University of Alabama