Mar 30, 2017 - Sale 2441

Sale 2441 - Lot 137

Price Realized: $ 469
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
(ADVERTISING) R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY. I'd Walk a Mile For a Camel (supplied title). A soft-focus color-enhanced silver print photograph of a seated WWI "doughboy" holding a pack of Camel cigarettes up in his left hand. Np, circa 1920's

Additional Details

A highly unusual original photograph, used to advertise a well-known brand of cigarette. What is most unusual is the advertising directly aimed at the black community in 1914-1918.