"Inflation"

Cigarette card from the Eckstein-Halpaus cigarette factory, image 49 from the Die Nachkriegszeit (The Post War Period) series. The card features a color photograph depicting police keeping a crowd contained behind a sign showing food prices. Cigarette cards were trading cards issued by tobacco manufacturers between 1875 and the 1940s. Albums with text, but not images, were published and the collectors added the picture cards to complete the book. They became popular in Germany during the 1920s and continued to grow in popularity with the rise of the Nazi regime. This series features the causes and outbreak of World War I.