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The trend toward combining typography, photography, and graphics in the late teens and early twenties led to a demand for new, eye-catching designs and creative photography in the advertising industry. This advertisement for Robert Burns Cigars, with a photo by Elizabeth Buehrmann, appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, February 19, 1921. - Romana Javitz Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs.

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