Red Cloud chewing tobacco / Strobridge & Co. 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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This rare antique lithograph captures Red Cloud chewing tobacco / Strobridge & Co. lith. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Red Cloud chewing tobacco / Strobridge & Co. lith.
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The name on this label, Red Cloud, belonged to the Oglala Lakota leader (1822–1909), who by 1872 was one of the best-known Native American figures in the United States. He had led resistance to the Bozeman Trail forts during Red Cloud's War (1866–1868) and then signed the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868. Cincinnati's Strobridge & Co. produced this chromolithograph in 1872 for tobacco packaging, a trade that often borrowed the names and images of famous people to sell products. The label's Chicago distributors and copyright entry, recorded in the print's notes, show how such commercial art moved through the national market.
| Created / published | Cincinnati, O. : Strobridge & Co. lith., 1872. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Tobacco package labels 1870-1880.Chromolithographs Color 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Ingraham, Corbin & May, Chicago. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1872 by Allen & Ellis [...]. |
| Subjects | Red Cloud,--1822-1909. Tribal chiefs--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,301 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-118474 |
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