http://cigarhistory.info/Special_Exhibits/New_exhibits.html IMPORTANT NOTE: Apple’s new version of iweb has a tendency to change what I upload in 13 point type to tiny 9 point type. I’m working on repairs, but the Museum is a huge site with 22 topical Galleries, 197 Exhibits and 5,000 photos, so I’m bound to miss some. Please tell me about type that’s tiny or hidden behind illustrations. Thanks. <tony@CigarHistory.info>. New pictures and / or text has been added to the Bibliographies, Time Lines and many other existing exhibits; Revisit your favorites. Cigar Factories of 1885 (2) Where were they? Not where you think (added May, 2010) Cigar Factories of 1885 (1) A look at the 3 classic sizes of factory (added May, 2010) Pottery Spittoons Pretty ones for bordellos and grandma (added May, 2010) Women Smokers Part I A look at images of cigar-smoking women 1725-1875 (added May, 2010) Cigar Prices in 1883 An 1883 NY newspaper gives rare insight on $1 cigars (added April, 2010) Movie Theater Ad Slides Yes, they had ads in movies in 1910 too. (added April, 2010) Old West Cowboys, cowgirls, bandits, pioneers, and Western movie star. (added April, 2010) Indians How were they portrayed on cigar labels? (added February, 2010) The “Perfect Package” What is it? Does it exist? What do experts say? (added January 2010) Gallery of Cigarette-related exhibits is now open featuring “The History of Cigarettes” by Dick Elliott, Editor of BRANDSTAND, the cigarette pack collector’s newsletter. (added January 2010) European Playing Card Collection: 263 different tobacco-related playing cards, featuring cigars, cigarettes, smoking tobacco, rolling papers, tobacconists (added January 2010) Tax Districts A list of them published for 1st time since 1866 (added November 2009) Import Taxes Smokers of Cuban cigars paid a heavy price (added October 2009) Tax History An 1780-1880 overview of how cigars came to be taxed (added October 2009) Miscellaneous Premiums If you can imagine it, cigar folks gave it away (added September 2009) Union Strategy Tenements, the Trust, United Cigar Stores...a glimpse (added September 2009) Hand tools have been split into I (identification guide) and II (expanded detail) (September 2009) Playing Cards The Darlene Schwein collection of cigarette playing cards (added August 2009) Playing Cards Poker cards advertising brands of cigars expanded greatly (expanded August 2009) Wild Animals Lions, deer and bugs of all sort. Bugs? Lots of them (added July 2009) Domestic Animals Dogs, cats, horses, even goats sold cigars (added July 2009) Water Creatures Oysters, lobsters, and salamanders...yum! (added July 2009) Flora Fruits, flowers and vegetables used to advertise cigars (added July 2009) Fake paperweights on Ebay A recent creation that might fool some folks (added June 2009) CMIU and the machine The CMIU reacts to the 1st fully automatic machine (added June 2009) Coupons Tens of millions were issued. Do you see yours? (Added April 2009) Tin Tobacco Tags Plug your plug (Added April 2009) Sheet Music about Cigars Sing and Smoke Your Troubles Away (Added March 2009) Trinidad Cuban Girlie Cards Loved by American sin-seekers of the 1930’s (added March 2009) Silks & Satins A popular premium de-mythified. (added March 2009) Felts, Flannels & Flags Another popular premium properly identified. (added March 2009) Leathers The rarest of all premium types. (added March 2009) Playing Cards What could beat a cigar, a beer and a royal flush? (added November 2008) Girlie Cards Hard-A-Port and Trump girlie playing cards. (added November 2008) Box Openers 160 different tools to open a box? Good Heavens! (added November 2008) Ashtrays A sample collection of where to put your butt. (added October 2008) Ladies of the Eighties Sex comes to cigar advertising in the 1880s. (added October 2008) Comic Characters From Yellow Kid to Winnie Winkle. (added October 2008) Frauds-Fakes-Fantasies Expanded, rewritten and reorganized, (expanded October 2008) Railroads Moved the nation, cigar salesmen and billions of cigars. (added September 2008) All Cuban Brands The longest known list of Cuban cigar brands. (added August 2008) Canadian Ports How to tell in what town Canadian tax ports are located. (added July 2008) Small Town Choices What did smokers in small towns light up in 1890? (added April 2008) Fraternal Organizations K of C, Masons, Moose, GAR, NAACP, and more. (added April 2008) Cigar Cases From sterling silver to papier maché, a selection. (added April 2008) Paper Bags Cheap and efficient cigar pouches. (added April 2008) Important Companies Selected, but not written. See who’s on the list. (added April 2008) 1863-1868 Tax Wars Part of the “Important Events” Series. (added April 2008) Jumbos Smokes so big the government doesn’t call them cigars. (added April 2008) About the Museum CIGAR MAGAZINE publishes a gem about us. (added March 2008) CMIU artifacts A century of signs, badges and paperwork. (added March 2008) CMIU give-aways Two decades of free trinkets, useful and not. (added March 2008) Identifying CMIU locals What Cigarmaker’s Union Local was where. (added March 2008) Frauds, Fakes & Fantasies Ebay items that are fakes or misidentified. (added March 2008) War From the Revolution to WWII, as illustrated on cigar boxes. (added February 2008) Election Cigar Boxes From Lincoln to Kennedy, cigars were there. (added February 2008) Newspapers Catch up on the news and have a smoke. (added February 2008) Canadian Stamp Notes Details on issue changes, 1867-1881. (added February 2008) Cigar Making Hand Tools From rocks to head drillers, what they use. (added January 2008) Assortments Gift, Sample and Choice style boxes. (added January 2008) Earliest Cigar Boxes When cigars came in boxes of 1,000 or more. (added August 2007) Boxes of 250 Giant boxes used for cheap cigars, 1880-1910. (added August 2007) The Devil Made Me Buy It Demons and Devils sell cigars. (added August 2007) Early Cuban Labels II Response to the first exhibit was so good I’ve added another Birth of Advertising selection of early (1835-1860) Cuban labels. (added August 2007) Sports and recreation How many different amusements are pictured on cigar boxes? From bowling, soccer and croquet to checkers, chess and crossword puzzles. (added July 2007) Baseball on boxes America’s diamond pastime on boxes. (added July 2007) Horse Racing How cigar boxes have shown the sport of kings since 1870. (added July 2007) Hunting & Fishing How boxes have portrayed outdoor sports since 1870. (added July 2007) Modern Humidors Not an exhaustive study. Highlights my personal fascination with the Beautiful American Heritage Collection of four historic buildings. (added June 2007) Birds One of the more popular label themes. (added June 2007) White Labor Movement in California California was once the fourth leading producer of cigars thanks to two Jewish merchants and a whole lot of Chinese. And then came rebellion. (Added March 2007, Expanded June 2007) Street sellers Text & 7 pictures added to previous exhibit. (Added June 2007) Vanity Labels It became popular in the 1890’s to add personal photographs to cigar labels: children, animals, businesses and local scenes were most common. (Added May 2007) Honradez Take a tour of Cuba’s most important cigarette company during the 1850’s and 1860’s, responsible for creating the first tobacco collectible. Most complete tour ever printed in any one article. (Added May 2007) Honradez labels More than 3,000 different cigarette labels made in Cuba during the 1850’s and 1860’s became the world’s first tobacco collectible. See a selection. (Added May 2007) Patriotic labels From the Civil War to World War Two, eagles, flags and Uncle Sam have been popular themes. (Added May 2007) Bad Brand Names If you were selecting a brand name for a cigar, would you pick Smudge, Rotten, Rattlesnake or Pure Grit? Someone did. (Added April 2007) Dating Tax Class Notices The quickest most reliable way to tell whether a cigar box is before or after WWI or WWII. (Added April 2007) Identifying Canadian Factories How to translate ID’s on Canadian cigar boxes into the names and locations of the factory. (Added April 2007) Cuban Corruption: 1898-1960 Fidel Castro did not appear in Cuba out of thin air. His revolution was the inevitable result of centuries of corruption under the Spanish followed by decades of more corruption under U.S. controlled “freedom.” (Added April 2007) END http://cigarhistory.info/Special_Exhibits/New_exhibits.html#0 2d3c7b62-be91-4cf4-a86b-65c2c9aec8e6 http://cigarhistory.info/Special_Exhibits/New_exhibits_files/Media/11560/thumb.jpg http://cigarhistory.info/Special_Exhibits/New_exhibits_files/Media/11560/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_259_64"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style">Winter Issue, 2007-2008. Great article<br/></p><p class="paragraph_style">on the Museum. Order a copy at<br/></p><p class="paragraph_style">1-(877)-777-6926<br/></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style">[11560]</p></div></div> http://cigarhistory.info/Special_Exhibits/New_exhibits.html#1 687db491-bbe7-4af4-958e-53ede129616e http://cigarhistory.info/Special_Exhibits/New_exhibits_files/Media/14361/thumb.jpg http://cigarhistory.info/Special_Exhibits/New_exhibits_files/Media/14361/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_259_64"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style">One of my favorite recent buys held cigars made about 1905 by R.E. Jacoby of Rothsville, PA.<br/></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style">[14361]</p></div></div> http://cigarhistory.info/Special_Exhibits/New_exhibits.html#2 80e3ef9c-2117-463f-b63c-925205dd27eb http://cigarhistory.info/Special_Exhibits/New_exhibits_files/Media/14365/thumb.jpg http://cigarhistory.info/Special_Exhibits/New_exhibits_files/Media/14365/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_259_64"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style">Things Egyptian were all the rage around the world in the 1920s and 30s. This box is a knockout.<br/></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style">[14365]</p></div></div> http://cigarhistory.info/Special_Exhibits/New_exhibits.html#3 2618651b-7751-46cc-9250-461cd4863d89 http://cigarhistory.info/Special_Exhibits/New_exhibits_files/Media/12591/thumb.jpg http://cigarhistory.info/Special_Exhibits/New_exhibits_files/Media/12591/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_259_64"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style">On a trip to Nairobi, we stopped in London and shopped at my two favorite print vendors. This<br/></p><p class="paragraph_style">1820 depiction of smokers as fad-following <br/></p><p class="paragraph_style">monkeys is a previously unknown gem.<br/></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style">[12591]</p></div></div> http://cigarhistory.info/Special_Exhibits/New_exhibits.html#4 e43b1737-1c99-4053-801a-63b35ce3a4b1 http://cigarhistory.info/Special_Exhibits/New_exhibits_files/Media/12551/thumb.jpg http://cigarhistory.info/Special_Exhibits/New_exhibits_files/Media/12551/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_259_64"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style">Very early 1880&#x2019;s beauty of an NWH box<br/></p><p class="paragraph_style">with an irresistible label. <br/></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style">[12551]</p></div></div> http://cigarhistory.info/Special_Exhibits/New_exhibits.html#5 e2628de7-50f2-41d1-93b6-6844322b7600 http://cigarhistory.info/Special_Exhibits/New_exhibits_files/Media/12563/thumb.jpg http://cigarhistory.info/Special_Exhibits/New_exhibits_files/Media/12563/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_259_64"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style">A <span class="style">CIGAR MAGAZINE </span>reader donated one of the<br/></p><p class="paragraph_style">fake Coca-Cola bands, which I added to the<br/></p><p class="paragraph_style">exhibit of Frauds, Fakes and Fantasies.<br/></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style">[12563]</p></div></div> http://cigarhistory.info/Special_Exhibits/New_exhibits.html#6 adc9fed5-ca3b-4c90-a954-90492594b7e5 http://cigarhistory.info/Special_Exhibits/New_exhibits_files/Media/11574/thumb.jpg http://cigarhistory.info/Special_Exhibits/New_exhibits_files/Media/11574/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_259_64"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style">New addition to Children Smoking exhibit.<br/></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style">[11574]</p></div></div> http://cigarhistory.info/Special_Exhibits/New_exhibits.html#7 69f9821c-8a69-41e8-8303-5a9b80986112 http://cigarhistory.info/Special_Exhibits/New_exhibits_files/Media/11503/thumb.jpg http://cigarhistory.info/Special_Exhibits/New_exhibits_files/Media/11503/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_259_64"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style">New Addition to Cuban Chests Exhibit.<br/></p><p class="paragraph_style"><span style="line-height: 11px; " class="style_1">EL AGUILA DEL ORO </span>by Bock y Ca., c1880s.<br/></p><p class="paragraph_style"><span class="style_2">$1000 purchase made possible by Lew Rothman.<br/></span></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style">[11503]</p></div></div> http://cigarhistory.info/Special_Exhibits/New_exhibits.html#8 4a95d36a-f4eb-4c00-9133-46fd637b3e3c http://cigarhistory.info/Special_Exhibits/New_exhibits_files/Media/11529/thumb.jpg http://cigarhistory.info/Special_Exhibits/New_exhibits_files/Media/11529/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_259_64"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style">A great addition to the Bad Brand Names Exhibit is this PA box created for a Maine distributor in 1898.<br/></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style">[11529]</p></div></div> http://cigarhistory.info/Special_Exhibits/New_exhibits.html#9 97faefbd-a26b-4ae5-a771-a2bc1a227c0d http://cigarhistory.info/Special_Exhibits/New_exhibits_files/Media/11011/thumb.jpg http://cigarhistory.info/Special_Exhibits/New_exhibits_files/Media/11011/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_259_64"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style">Spanish women wearing <span class="style_3">mantillas</span> are seldom thought of as vamps. Cigars made in<br/></p><p class="paragraph_style">1939 Belleville, Illinois.<br/></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style">[11011]</p></div></div> http://cigarhistory.info/Special_Exhibits/New_exhibits.html#10 89313712-f2b2-44ae-94b6-f73b4ea79ce4 http://cigarhistory.info/Special_Exhibits/New_exhibits_files/Media/11630/thumb.jpg http://cigarhistory.info/Special_Exhibits/New_exhibits_files/Media/11630/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_259_64"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style">One of four new purchases made by the NCM<br/></p><p class="paragraph_style">to flesh out an outstanding exhibit of Election-related cigar boxes <span class="style_4">now open</span> for your enjoyment. <br/></p><p class="paragraph_style_1">$158 purchase made possible by Lew Rothman.<br/></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style">[11630]</p></div></div>