Capitol - Fabrica de tobacos de la Vuelta de Abajo ... – 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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This antique lithograph of Capitol - Fabrica de tobacos de la Vuelta de Abajo ... brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Here the Capitol serves as a trademark rather than a civic portrait. The Spanish wording names a tobacco factory in the Vuelta de Abajo, the western Cuban district in Pinar del Rio long prized for its premium leaf, so this lithograph was printed to decorate a cigar box label for an export product. Around 1868, the Capitol's cast-iron dome had recently been completed, and American and European buyers would have recognized the building at a glance. Labels like this one show how manufacturers borrowed national landmarks to lend prestige to goods sold far from where they were made.
| Created / published | c1868. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Tobacco package labels 1860-1870.Lithographs 1860-1870. |
| Notes | LOT subdivision subject: Views, U.S. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Copyright by Wm. H. Palmer |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,024 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174015 |
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