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Since 1789, when the first tobacco advertisement appeared, tobacco
manufacturers have been pioneers of advertising and marketing,
revolutionizing the American way of doing business in the process.
The folksy, familiar and innocent-looking images portrayed in
tobacco advertising were part of the new wave of product promotion
- tin tags, cigar and tobacco labels, insert cards (including the
first baseball cards) - that helped transform America into a nation
of smokers by 1900. With illustrations of antique artifacts, old
photographs and contemporary advertising, the reader is taken
through the rapid growth of the tobacco industry following the
Civil War, and shown a wide-range of promotional ploys and
gimmickry that evolved in this century: tobacco tins, cigarette
pack art, and outdoor advertising. Other advertising objects
include lapel buttons, pocket mirrors, postcards, watch fobs,
pocketknives, envelope stickers and more. All are lavishly
illustrated, many in full color, and an informative value guide is
included.
Cigar Box Labels: Portraits of Life, Mirrors of History pays
tribute to cigars and the pictorial glory of Victorian-era cigar
box labels, a unique form of commercial advertising that flourished
in the business place a century ago and helped drive cigars to
widespread prominence in American society. Those who fancy these
stunningly beautiful paper images as a hobby are in the midst of
the hottest area of antique tobacco advertising collecting today.
Showcased here are some of the finest and most desirable examples
produced by the old stone chromolithographic method between 1860
and 1910. This book also explores some of the rich historical past
that surrounds cigars-their manufacture, marketing, and, most of
all, their mystique. Also featured is a potpourri of contemporary
anecdotes, poems, and other bits of literary whimsy designed to
amuse, educate, and titillate the imagination.
Those who will recall the Simpson trial as the legal extravaganza
of its century might be surprised by striking parallels between it
and the late-nineteenth century trial of the infamous Frank James.
In 1882, James urrendered to authorities voluntarily and was tried
for murder the following year in Gallatin, Missouri. Petrone's
analysis of primary and secondary sources tells the story of a
charismatic prominent figure, who assembles his century's legal
dream team and in the face of overwhelming incriminating evidence,
wins acquittal from a sympathetic jury. 'The trial of Frank James
has never before been explored in detail, although his acquittal
has long screamed for explanation' - Bill O'Neal. 'Scholars as well
as 'buffs' have always neglected the trial of Frank James. Thus
""Judgment at Gallatin"" fills in a major gap in our knowledge of
the James brothers' - Richard Maxwell Brown.
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