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Results for "A Skeleton in the Closet, from the Jokes"12 records

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A Bachelor's Error, from the Jokes series (N87) for Duke brand cigarettes by W. Duke, Sons & Co., The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Bachelor's Error, from the Jokes series (N87) for Duke brand cigarettes

W. Duke, Sons & Co. (d. 1920)

1890 · Commercial color lithograph

Cleared · Public Domain

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A Boxer, from the Jokes series (N87) for Duke brand cigarettes by W. Duke, Sons & Co., The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Boxer, from the Jokes series (N87) for Duke brand cigarettes

W. Duke, Sons & Co. (d. 1920)

1890 · Commercial color lithograph

Cleared · Public Domain

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A Building Lot, from the Jokes series (N87) for Duke brand cigarettes by W. Duke, Sons & Co., The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Building Lot, from the Jokes series (N87) for Duke brand cigarettes

W. Duke, Sons & Co. (d. 1920)

1890 · Commercial color lithograph

Cleared · Public Domain

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A Garden Party, from the Jokes series (N87) for Duke brand cigarettes by W. Duke, Sons & Co., The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Garden Party, from the Jokes series (N87) for Duke brand cigarettes

W. Duke, Sons & Co. (d. 1920)

1890 · Commercial color lithograph

Cleared · Public Domain

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A Heavy Ring, from the Jokes series (N87) for Duke brand cigarettes by W. Duke, Sons & Co., The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Heavy Ring, from the Jokes series (N87) for Duke brand cigarettes

W. Duke, Sons & Co. (d. 1920)

1890 · Commercial color lithograph

Cleared · Public Domain

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A Minstrel's Lay, from the Jokes series (N87) for Duke brand cigarettes by W. Duke, Sons & Co., The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Minstrel's Lay, from the Jokes series (N87) for Duke brand cigarettes

W. Duke, Sons & Co. (d. 1920)

1890 · Commercial color lithograph

Cleared · Public Domain

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A Pot Boiler, from the Jokes series (N87) for Duke brand cigarettes by W. Duke, Sons & Co., The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Pot Boiler, from the Jokes series (N87) for Duke brand cigarettes

W. Duke, Sons & Co. (d. 1920)

1890 · Commercial color lithograph

Cleared · Public Domain

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A Skeleton in the Closet, from the Jokes series (N87) for Duke brand cigarettes by W. Duke, Sons & Co., The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Skeleton in the Closet, from the Jokes series (N87) for Duke brand cigarettes

W. Duke, Sons & Co. (d. 1920)

1890 · Commercial color lithograph

Cleared · Public Domain

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A Taking Man, from the Jokes series (N87) for Duke brand cigarettes by W. Duke, Sons & Co., The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Taking Man, from the Jokes series (N87) for Duke brand cigarettes

W. Duke, Sons & Co. (d. 1920)

1890 · Commercial color lithograph

Cleared · Public Domain

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A Skeleton in the Closet / A Heavy Ring, from the Jokes series (N118) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco by W. Duke, Sons & Co., The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Skeleton in the Closet / A Heavy Ring, from the Jokes series (N118) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

W. Duke, Sons & Co. (d. 1920)

ca. 1891 · Commercial color lithograph

Cleared · Public Domain

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Broadsheet relating to the skeleton from Guadalajara by Manuel Manilla, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Broadsheet relating to the skeleton from Guadalajara

Manuel Manilla (d. 1895)

ca. 1890 · Type-metal engraving and letterpress on green paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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A skeleton in a torero costume turning away from a kneeling skeleton in a shawl and dress, from the broadside "El gran panteón amoroso" by José Guadalupe Posada, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A skeleton in a torero costume turning away from a kneeling skeleton in a shawl and dress, from the broadside "El gran panteón amoroso"

José Guadalupe Posada (d. 1913)

ca. 1894 · Type-metal engraving

Cleared · Public Domain

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