Star club – Antique 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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Star club comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A tobacco label from Havana names its subject outright: the Star Club, a ballclub shown at play in the 1860s. The label is printed in both Spanish and English and advertises the cigars of R. & W., a Havana factory whose proprietors, Ruhe & Weikel, registered the design for copyright in December 1867. Baseball was spreading through Cuba in these years, carried by Cuban and American players, and cigar makers often borrowed fashionable sporting scenes to sell their brands.
| Created / published | c1867. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving, color. |
| Genre | Tobacco package labels 1860-1870.Advertisements 1860-1870.Wood engravings Color 1860-1870. |
| Notes | 1062 U.S. Copyright Office Title from item. Caption continues: R. & W. Fabrica de tobaccos de las mejores. Estramuras, Habana. Copyright Dec. 18, 1867, by Ruhe & Weikel, proprietors. |
| Subjects | Baseball--Cuba--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,149 × 1,442 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217245 |
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