Merchants & Manufacturers $10,000 Cigar label: harness horse and driver – Historic Print
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Merchants & Manufacturers $10,000 Cigar label: harness horse and driver. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Merchants & Manufacturers $10,000 Cigar label: harness horse and driver
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A driver seated in a light two-wheeled sulky guides a trotting horse on this cigar label, a scene that would have been familiar to anyone who followed harness racing at the time. Trotting races drew large crowds across the United States in the late 1800s, and tobacco makers borrowed that imagery because a fast horse suggested speed, status and a sporting crowd. The brand name, Merchants & Manufacturers, with its $10,000 figure, reads as a bold claim of value, the kind of boast cigar makers printed to stand out on crowded shop shelves. Labels like this were often lithographed in bright color and now serve as small records of advertising and popular taste.
| Original scan | 893 × 661 px |
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| Reference | Hor47 |
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