Gravely's best flue cured Prepared by C.R. Sisson : Virginia smoking tobacco / Herline & Hensel, Lith. – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Gravely's best flue cured Prepared by C.R. Sisson : Virginia smoking tobacco / Herline & Hensel, Lith. comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Gravely's best flue cured Prepared by C.R. Sisson : Virginia smoking tobacco / Herline & Hensel, Lith.
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Tobacco labels of the 1850s rarely named a real historical figure, but this one is tied to Sequoyah, the Cherokee silversmith who devised a written syllabary for the Cherokee language around 1821. Printed in Philadelphia by Herline & Hensel in about 1859, the chromolithograph advertised Gravely's flue-cured Virginia smoking tobacco, and its copyright notice shows that W.H. Carr registered the design under an act of Congress that year. Sequoyah's syllabary spread quickly among the Cherokee and helped launch the newspaper *Cherokee Phoenix*, so his presence on a commercial label is striking, though it also reflects the era's habit of using Native figures to sell goods.
| Created / published | Philada. : Herline & Hensel, Lith., c1859. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Tobacco package labels 1850-1860.Chromolithographs Color 1850-1860. |
| Notes | 392 U.S. Copyright Office. Entered accordg. to act of Congress in 1859 by W.H. Carr in the Clerk's Office of the Eastern Dist. Ct. of Pa. |
| Subjects | Sequoyah,--1770?-1843. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,192 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-118888 |
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