The Pocohontas Chewing Tobacco – Historic Reproduction
(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: The Pocohontas Chewing Tobacco, preserved in this antique lithograph. 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 Pocohontas Chewing Tobacco
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The label's title, *The Pocohontas Chewing Tobacco*, names the Powhatan woman Pocahontas, whose story of Jamestown in early seventeenth-century Virginia had become a favorite subject in American popular culture by the 1860s. Tobacco was closely tied to that history, since colonists in Virginia built their economy on its cultivation, and makers often used such associations to suggest quality and national roots. Color lithographs like this one were printed in quantity to decorate packages and plug labels, and the caption card's tags for both women and Indians in advertising show how the trade drew on romanticized imagery of Native people to sell a product.
| Created / published | 1867 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Tobacco package labels 1860-1870.Lithographs Color 1860-1870. |
| Subjects | LOT subdivision subject: Indians and Indian Life (by name). Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Caption card tracings: Women used in advertising -- 1867; Indians used in advertising -- 1867; BI (Indians); Labels Tobacco -- 1867; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 777 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172967 |
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