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Text on Button | GOOD NIGHT |
Image Description | Man blows out candle above black text over blue background. |
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HASSAN CIGARETTES FACTORY No 649 1st DISTRICT NY W & H CO PATENTED |
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Additional Information | Illustrator Harry C. "Bud" Fisher (1885-1954) created "Mutt and Jeff," America's first daily comic strip. Fisher was born in Chicago, Illinois and attended the University of Chicago. He moved to San Francisco in 1907 and took a job as a journalist with the San Francisco Chronicle. It was while living in San Francisco that he developed the comic strip and illustrated a number of buttons for Hassan Cigarettes. |
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Bud Fisher. (2012, June 14). lambiek.net. Retrieved October 15, 2014, from http://www.lambiek.net/artists/f/fisher_b.htm |
Catalog ID | AD0394 |