Old Times" cigar label with smoking gentleman in period scenes – Historic Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic image of Old Times" cigar label with smoking gentleman in period scenes. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Old Times" cigar label with smoking gentleman in period scenes
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Printed to identify a cigar brand, this label pairs the "Old Times" name with a smoking gentleman shown across several period scenes. Cigar makers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries commonly used colorful lithographed labels like this one to make their product stand out on a shop shelf or inside a box. The scenes of leisure and dress were meant to suggest refinement and a certain idea of masculine comfort, so the image says as much about how tobacco was marketed as it does about the men who smoked it. Labels like this were often discarded or lost, which makes surviving examples useful to collectors and researchers of popular printing.
| Original scan | 946 × 632 px |
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| Reference | MEN79 |
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