Pearl of the Orient

Girl winding pearls around herself in a tobacco label advertisement.

This public domain advertisement is from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. The subject is a young girl sitting on a red velvet cushion in front of an ornately framed mirror. She is drawing long strings of pearls from a fancy gilded box and winding them around her head and shoulders. The product being sold in this ad is assumed to be pearls, but the place of sale is not clear. This advertisement was published as a tobacco label.

The pre-1923 publication date associated with this advertisement indicates that this image is in the public domain.

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Pearl of the Orient

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