Die Olympischen Spiele 1936

This cigarette album commemorates the 1936 Olympic Games, held in Berlin and in the Bavarian ski town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Cigarette albums like this one were sold with printed text and blank spaces for photographs; album owners would send in coupons that came with packets of cigarettes to receive photographs to paste into the album’s pages. In this example, the album's owner is invited to create their own personal memento from photographs of a current, public event. 

A full scan of this album is available through the Internet Archive. Another German cigarette album housed in Bruce Peel Special Collections celebrates the life of Adolf Hitler.