Missouri Valley. Expressly manufactured for the Omaha market of the finest Vuelta Abajo tobacco by M.M.S. / Lith. of F. Heppenheimer & Co., N.Y. – 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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Step back in time with Missouri Valley. Expressly manufactured for the Omaha market of the finest Vuelta Abajo tobacco by M.M.S. / Lith. of F. Heppenheimer & Co., N.Y., an antique lithograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Missouri Valley. Expressly manufactured for the Omaha market of the finest Vuelta Abajo tobacco by M.M.S. / Lith. of F. Heppenheimer & Co., N.Y.
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Printed as a cigar label for the Omaha trade, this lithograph names Missouri Valley, Iowa, a river town on the Missouri that was gaining importance as railroads reached the region. The text promotes tobacco from the Vuelta Abajo district of Cuba, a area long prized for its leaf, and credits M.M. Smith with the copyright and F. Heppenheimer & Co. of New York with the lithography. Commercial lithography like this was inexpensive enough to print in quantity, so surviving examples show how makers marketed premium goods to buyers across the Midwest after the Civil War.
| Created / published | c1869. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Landscape prints 1860-1870.Labels 1860-1870.Lithographs 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Copyright by M.M. Smith. |
| Subjects | Tobacco products--1860-1870. Missouri Valley (Iowa)--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,269 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-186630 |
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