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El Alabama fabrica de tabacos de las mejores vegas de la vuelta abajo – Historic Print

El Alabama fabrica de tabacos de las mejores vegas de la vuelta abajo, [1859] — antique engraving
El Alabama fabrica de tabacos de las mejores vegas de la vuelta abajo, [1859]. Antique engraving from the Latin America 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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A window into the past: El Alabama fabrica de tabacos de las mejores vegas de la vuelta abajo, preserved in this antique engraving. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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The label names a brand, El Alabama, and claims leaf from the best fields of Vuelta Abajo, the western part of Pinar del Río province that growers long regarded as Cuba's finest tobacco country. Its subject of shipping points to the trade that carried Havana cigars to buyers in Europe and the United States. Labels like this one, printed during the 1850s, were meant to catch a buyer's eye and vouch for a manufacturer's quality.

Created / published[1859]
Medium1 print : engraving.
GenreLabels 1850-1860.Engravings 1850-1860.
SubjectsTobacco plantations--Cuba--Havana--1850-1860. Shipping--Cuba--Havana--1850-1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,150 × 1,451 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-216126

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