Sailors Soldiers Tobac – Vintage Print
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Description
This rare historic image captures Sailors Soldiers Tobac in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Sailors Soldiers Tobac
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The title names its subjects plainly: sailors, soldiers and tobacco. That pairing points to the tobacco sent to men serving in both the army and navy during the war. By 1915 the fighting had gone on for nearly a year, and smoking was widely regarded as one of the few comforts available in trenches, on ships and in camps. Gifts of cigarettes and pipe tobacco became a familiar part of home-front support, and images like this one show how closely commerce and the war effort were intertwined. It is worth noticing how matter-of-fact the subject is, treating a everyday item as a soldier's and sailor's companion rather than showing the war itself.
| Created / published | 1915 |
|---|---|
| Original scan | 3,994 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1196_Sailors_Soldiers_Tobac_1915 |
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