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[Stock form for tobacco label; girl in apron leaning on broom and smoking pipe] – Historic Print

[Stock form for tobacco label; girl in apron leaning on broom and smoking pipe], [187-?] — antique lithograph
[Stock form for tobacco label; girl in apron leaning on broom and smoking pipe], [187-?]. Antique lithograph from the Tobacco collection.

(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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[Stock form for tobacco label; girl in apron leaning on broom and smoking pipe]

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A young girl in an apron, leaning on a broom with a pipe in her mouth, makes this color lithograph unusual among tobacco labels. It was issued as a stock form, a standard design that a tobacco dealer could have overprinted with a brand name, and it was printed by the Hatch Lithograph Company at 32 and 34 West Street in New York. The record dates it only to the 1870s, a period when American tobacco packaging depended heavily on bright color prints. Humorous scenes of children and women smoking were meant to catch the eye on crowded shop shelves, and today they offer a window into the attitudes of that time.

Created / published[187-?]
Medium1 print : lithograph, color.
GenreTobacco package labels 1870-1880.Lithographs Color 1870-1880.
NotesLOT subdivision subject: Smoking (men, women, children in the act of) - Children, Women. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Color lithograph by Hatch Lithograph Company, 32 & 34 West Street. N.Y.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan797 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-116515

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