Harris, Beebe & Co.: The Pocahontas Chewing Tobacco / The Hatch Lith. Co. N.Y. – Vintage Print
![Harris, Beebe & Co.: The Pocahontas Chewing Tobacco / The Hatch Lith. Co. N.Y., [1868] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/4e/4e9c2f6d1773-L.webp)
(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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This antique lithograph of Harris, Beebe & Co.: The Pocahontas Chewing Tobacco / The Hatch Lith. Co. N.Y. brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Harris, Beebe & Co.: The Pocahontas Chewing Tobacco / The Hatch Lith. Co. N.Y.
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Named for Pocahontas, the Powhatan woman who lived in early Virginia and died in 1617, this chromolithograph was designed to sell a brand of chewing tobacco rather than to record her life. The Hatch Lithograph Company of New York printed it for Harris, Beebe & Co., and the catalog gives a date of 1868. Chromolithography, a color printing method that became cheap and popular in the 1860s, made such eye-catching labels possible. The record also notes a U.S. Copyright Office registration, which protected commercial designs like this one. Images of Native people were common on tobacco packaging of the period, and this label shows how a historical figure could be turned into a marketing emblem.
| Created / published | [1868] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Tobacco package labels 1860-1870.Chromolithographs Color 1860-1870. |
| Notes | 4956E U.S. Copyright Office. Published in: Many nations: A Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Indian and Alaska native peoples of the United States / edited by Patrick Frazier and the Publishing Office.l Washington : Library of Congress, 1996, p. 180. |
| Subjects | Pocahontas,--d. 1617. Indians of North America--Performances & portrayals--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 759 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-176477 |
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