Powhatan brand / lith. of Sarony, Major & Knapp. – Historic Reproduction
(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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A window into the past: Powhatan brand / lith. of Sarony, Major & Knapp., preserved in this antique lithograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Powhatan brand / lith. of Sarony, Major & Knapp.
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The Powhatan brand label pairs a tobacco name borrowed from a Virginia chief with the figures of Pocahontas and John Smith, rendered in this color chromolithograph printed in New York around 1860 by Sarony, Major & Knapp. Jamestown's settlers had turned to tobacco as a cash crop by the 1610s, and the story of Smith and Pocahontas, retold widely in the nineteenth century, gave the product a romantic link to the colony's origins. The imagery was meant to sell a commodity by evoking the Virginia frontier.
| Created / published | N.Y. : Lith. of Sarony, Major & Knapp, c1860. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Tobacco package labels 1860.Chromolithographs Color 1860. |
| Notes | 748 U.S. Copyright Office. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1860 by G.W. Hillman & Co. in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Southern Distict of N.Y. |
| Subjects | Pocahontas,--d. 1617. Smith, John,--1580-1631. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 980 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-176465 |
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