Cigar bands album
Creation: 1900-1915Abstract
The heyday of cigar band artwork spans from the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries with many of the companies adopting pictorial displays as well as text. The bands were produced through lithographic printing methods. This item is an album of cigar bands collected in the early twentieth century.
Dates
- Creation: 1900-1915
Creator
- Unknown (Organization)
Extent
1 item(s)
Physical Description
1 album : color ; 16 pages , 4.5 x 7 in. Two pages are loose. It contains approximately 194 cigar bands.
Historical Note
Cigar band label collecting was popular around the turn of the twentieth century. Many labels had artwork in addition to text. The artwork was done through the process of lithography. Cigar label artwork came to an end with the economic pressures of the Great Depression and the increased popularity of cigarettes.
Scope and Content
This item is a small sixteen page album designed for saving cigar bands. Cigar bands
is embossed on the front cover. The album is filled with numerous examples of cigar bands.
Location
GL Box 1.
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
Language of Materials
English
Subjects
Finding Aid & Administrative Information
- Title:
- Cigar bands album
- Date:
- 2015
- Description rules:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description:
- English
- Script of description:
- Latin
Repository Details
Repository Details
Part of the Audiovisual Collections Repository
