Harris, Beebe & Co.: The Pocahontas Chewing Tobacco / The Hatch Lith. Co. N.Y. – Vintage Wall Art
![Harris, Beebe & Co.: The Pocahontas Chewing Tobacco / The Hatch Lith. Co. N.Y., [1868] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/67/676f8baa695f-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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Step back in time with Harris, Beebe & Co.: The Pocahontas Chewing Tobacco / The Hatch Lith. Co. N.Y., an antique lithograph rich in period detail. 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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Few trade labels of the 1860s carried a more familiar name than this one, which promoted a chewing tobacco under the name of Pocahontas, the Powhatan woman who died in 1617. Harris, Beebe & Co. used her image to sell a product, and the chromolithograph was printed by the Hatch Lithographing Company in New York. Its subject line, which lists "Indians of North America--Performances & portrayals," shows how such labels turned Native people into decorative symbols for consumers. The print is worth studying for that reason, since it reflects both the color printing of the period and the stereotypes that commercial advertising drew on.
| 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 | 751 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172968 |
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