Select - manufactured of the best quality of vuelta abajo tobacco – 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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Select - manufactured of the best quality of vuelta abajo tobacco
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A cigar label titled "Select," advertising tobacco of the finest quality from Vuelta Abajo, points to one of Cuba's most prized growing districts in the west of the island. Strobridge & Co., a Cincinnati lithography firm, produced many colorful labels like this for cigar boxes and tobacco packages in the 1870s. Its subject tags note both smoking and women, a pairing that was common in the period's tobacco advertising. Collectors now value such labels as commercial art and as evidence of how tobacco was sold.
| Created / published | c1870. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Tobacco package labels 1870.Lithographs Color 1870. |
| Notes | Copyright by Strobridge & Co. |
| Subjects | Smoking--1870. Women--1870. Tobacco products--1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,320 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219108 |
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