Genuine Havana – Vintage Wall Art
(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: Genuine Havana, preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Few tobacco labels from this period depict women and children in the act of smoking, which sets this crayon lithograph apart from the usual cigar-box imagery. Its title, "Genuine Havana," points to the prestige that Cuban leaf carried in American markets, where a Havana label signaled quality. The print was made in 1868 by F. Heppenheimer & Co., a lithography firm that produced advertising and packaging art for tobacco makers during the 1860s. Its inclusion of women and children reflects how these labels sometimes pictured tobacco as a fashionable, domestic pleasure rather than only a men's habit.
| Created / published | 1868 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Tobacco package labels 1860-1870.Lithographs 1860-1870. |
| Subjects | LOT subdivision subject: Smoking (men, women, children in the act of) - Children, Women. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Crayon lithograph by F. Heppenheimer & Co. Caption card tracings: Women used in advertising--1868; Cuba--Havana--1868; Advertisements--Tobacco--1868; Tobacco and smoking--1868; women; geog; tobacco; advert; Publ. Ind; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,068 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-151005 |
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