American Eagle Tobacco Company, Detroit, Michigan Manufacturers of fine cuts and smokings : American Eagle Tobaccos. – Historic 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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of American Eagle Tobacco Company, Detroit, Michigan Manufacturers of fine cuts and smokings : American Eagle Tobaccos.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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American Eagle Tobacco Company, Detroit, Michigan Manufacturers of fine cuts and smokings : American Eagle Tobaccos.
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Few celebrities of the 1880s were pictured as often as Lillie Langtry, the Jersey-born beauty whose London society success and stage career made her famous on both sides of the Atlantic. Here she wears a costume that the subject headings link to geisha dress, reflecting the period's fascination with Japanese style in Europe and America. Tobacco makers such as the American Eagle company issued chromolithographs like this one as premiums, and the note on the back offering a duplicate for 30 cents shows how eagerly collectors sought them.
| Created / published | 1884, c1885. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : chromolithograph. |
| Notes | 25162 U.S. Copyright Office. Note on verso: A duplicate of this Beautiful Picture of Mrs. Langtry will be sent to any one who will send us 30 cents in Cash or Postage Stamps. American Eagle Tobacco Co. Detroit, Mich. Copyright 1884 by permission of Mora" ; actual copyright (from copyright registration) 1885 by Julius Bien & Co. |
| Subjects | Langtry, Lillie,--1853-1929. Geishas--1880-1890. Tobacco products--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,754 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-215147 |
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