Crown Stogie Factories W, West Virginia – Vintage Wall Art
(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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A window into the past: Crown Stogie Factories W, West Virginia, preserved in this historic image. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Employes [sic] of Augustus Pollack Crown Stogie Factories, Wheeling, W.Va.
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Crown Stogie Factories W, West Virginia
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In 1914, the Crown Stogie factories stood in West Virginia, a state whose towns along the Ohio River depended on factory labor and river trade. Cigar and stogie making was labor-intensive, so these plants employed large numbers of workers, many of them women, who rolled and packed cheap cigars by hand for national markets. The factory district reflected the industrial growth that had reshaped the valley since the late nineteenth century, when railroads and river traffic brought raw tobacco in and shipped finished goods out. Across the country that year, the outbreak of war in Europe in midsummer began to disrupt export trade and tobacco prices, adding uncertainty to the livelihoods of workers whose jobs depended on steady orders.
| Created / published | 1914 |
|---|---|
| Creator | wells view co. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--West Virginia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,058 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Employes [sic] of Augustus Pollack Crown Stogie Factories, Wheeling, W.Va. |
| Reference | WV Crown Stogie Factories W |
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