Keystone state - Holbrook Tobacco Manufacturing Company, Louisville, Ky. – Antique Wall Art
![Keystone state - Holbrook Tobacco Manufacturing Company, Louisville, Ky., [187-?] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ce/ce2dd7bc630d-L.webp)
(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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This rare antique lithograph captures Keystone state - Holbrook Tobacco Manufacturing Company, Louisville, Ky. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Keystone state - Holbrook Tobacco Manufacturing Company, Louisville, Ky.
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Named for Pennsylvania's nickname, the Keystone State label was made for a Louisville, Kentucky, firm, the Holbrook Tobacco Manufacturing Company, and it shows clipper and steam ships rather than the Keystone State itself. Those vessels reflect the river and maritime trade that moved goods through the Ohio River city in the 1870s. The Louisville Steam Lithograph Company printed many such colorful labels, which were pasted onto tobacco packages to catch the eye of buyers in crowded shops. The bright color work makes it a useful example of how commercial art doubled as advertising in the decades after the Civil War.
| Created / published | [187-?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Tobacco package labels 1870-1880.Lithographs Color 1870-1880. |
| Notes | 6571 U.S. Copyright Office LOT subdivision subject: Ships (clipper and steam). Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Color lithograph by Louisville Steam Lith. Co. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 853 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-119171 |
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