The First Nines: Segars Manufactured of the Best Vuelta Abajo Tobacco – Antique Print
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The First Nines: Segars Manufactured of the Best Vuelta Abajo Tobacco comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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The First Nines: Segars Manufactured of the Best Vuelta Abajo Tobacco
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Few pictures tie the early game to the cigar trade as directly as this one, which promotes its segars as made from the finest Vuelta Abajo leaf, grown in Cuba's Pinar del Río region. The title's "First Nines" points to the nine-player clubs that organized the sport in the 1850s and 1860s, when baseball was still an amateur pastime in eastern cities. Lithographed sporting scenes like this let tobacco firms attach their brands to the popular image of the national game. Note how the advertising sits right alongside the players, a reminder that commercial sponsorship was part of baseball from its early years.
| Original scan | 759 × 1,200 px · prints to 3 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 12 |
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