Object Details
sova.nmah.ac.0645_ref10
- Collection Creator
- Brown and Williamson.
- Johnson, Virgil
- American Tobacco Company.
- Benson and Hedges.
- Philip Morris, Inc.
- Lorillard.
- Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company.
- Reynolds, R. J.
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- Virgil Johnson Collection of Cigarette Packages
- Date
- circa 1890-1997
- Archival Repository
- Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Identifier
- NMAH.AC.0645, Series 1
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Virgil Johnson Collection of Cigarette Packages, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Collection Rights
- Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
- Scope and Contents
- Series 1: Cigarette Packages, 1890-1997 Packages were carefully unfolded and flattened by the collector, then mounted with Duco cement on heavyweight 11" x 17" paper. For each package there are also a cigarette wrapper and a sample of the filter material. Subseries 1.1: Foreign Cigarettes manufactured and/or sold in foreign countries, including American cigarettes sold overseas. They are organized by country of origin and then under alphabetically by name of manufacturer. Subseries 1.2: American Cigarettes manufactured and sold in the United States; arranged alphabetically by name of manufacturer. Subseries 1.3: Index Cards Card file index maintained by the collector cross-referencing name and manufacturer and indicating album location, date, and other identifying information for each pack. Boxes 22 and 23 are foreign cigarettes arranged alphabetically by brand. Box 24 is American cigarettes arranged alphabetically by brand.
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
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- Record ID
- ebl-1562730435369-1562730435376-1