This cabinet card photograph features actress Alice Vivian and it is number 74 in a series of photographs distributed as premiums for the purchase of Newsboy tobacco products. This image is certainly risque for the era that it was produced. She is certainly displaying a lot of leg. Miss Vivian appears to be one of the pioneers of early burlesque. She is holding a stringed instrument which I believe to be a mandolin. A stamp on the reverse of this photograph indicates that it once belonged to Culver Pictures, which was located at 60 First Avenue in New York City. Culver loaned photographs to media companies to utilize in their publications. Culver charged the companies for one time usage of the images. Preliminary research uncovered no information about Alice Vivian. To view other photographs by Newsboy, click on the category “Photographer: Newsboy”.
ALICE VIVIAN: THEATER ACTRESS SHOWS A LOT OF LEG IN NEWSBOY PHOTOGRAPH
The URI to TrackBack this entry is: https://cabinetcardgallery.com/2013/04/17/alice-vivian-theater-actress-shows-a-lot-of-leg-in-newsboy-photograph/trackback/
THE CABINET CARD GALLERY 
Wow, how many packets of tobacco were dropped on the floor when the fellas first saw these legs?
The instrument is a Mandola a tenor version of the mandolin.
This woman would certainly make me feel the urge to run out and buy Newsboy tobacco.