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Prize medal awarded--Suggett & Kimball's peerless tobacco / lith. of Moller & Forst 12 Vesey St. N.Y. – Antique Print

Prize medal awarded--Suggett & Kimball's peerless tobacco / lith. of Moller & Forst 12 Vesey St. N.Y., c1864. — antique lithograph
Prize medal awarded--Suggett & Kimball's peerless tobacco / lith. of Moller & Forst 12 Vesey St. N.Y., c1864.. Antique lithograph from the Tobacco 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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This antique lithograph of Prize medal awarded--Suggett & Kimball's peerless tobacco / lith. of Moller & Forst 12 Vesey St. N.Y. brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Prize medal awarded--Suggett & Kimball's peerless tobacco / lith. of Moller & Forst 12 Vesey St. N.Y.

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The label's title promotes Suggett & Kimball's Peerless Tobacco with a "Prize Medal Awarded" claim, a common boast in the 1860s, when manufacturers competed for medals at fairs and exhibitions to win buyers. It was printed in color by Moller & Forst, a New York lithography firm at 12 Vesey Street, and dates to about 1864, in the middle of the Civil War. The catalog also lists women and nudes as subjects, which shows how tobacco makers of the period used idealized female figures to make their packaging eye-catching. Such labels are useful to historians of both advertising and commercial printing.

Created / publishedc1864.
Medium1 print : lithograph, color.
GenreTobacco package labels 1860-1870.Lithographs Color 1860-1870.
NotesCopyright by Suggett & Kimball.
SubjectsWomen--1860-1870. Nudes--1860-1870.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,454 × 1,169 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-218227

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