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Kinney Tobacco Company
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Kinney Tobacco Company

Biography"The Kinney Tobacco Company was an American cigarette manufacturing firm that created the Sweet Caporal cigarette brand and promoted it with collectible trading cards. Being a leading cigarette manufacturer of the 1870-1880s, it merged in 1890 into the American Tobacco Company...Sweet Caporal launched as a brand in 1878...The original N-series of the Kinney Bro's High Class Cigarettes cards issued in 1880s, including Sweet Caporal brand, featured multiple topics: Actresses, Animals, Military, Fish, Famous Gems of the World, Famous Running Horses, Novelties, Naval Vessels of the World, Butterflies of the World, Flags of All Nations, and Surf Beauties, among others."--Wikipedia