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CIGARS
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Cigars: From Seed to Smoke, A Photographic History presents a richly illustrated visual history of the cigar industry from the mid-nineteenth through the early twentieth century. Featuring over 250 rare and compelling images, this volume traces the journey of the cigar—from the cultivation of tobacco to its transformation in workshops and factories, and into the expanding worlds of marketing, retail, and everyday use. It captures the people who built the industry and the spaces in which it thrived, revealing the labor, commerce, and culture that made the cigar a defining object of modern life.
With forewords by Robin O’Dell of the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts and Drew Newman of J.C. Newman Cigar Co., America’s oldest family-owned premium cigar manufacturer, this volume brings together a remarkable visual record of the cigar industry. It spans a wide range of photographic formats, including daguerreotypes, tintypes, cartes de visite, postcards, snapshots, and press photographs, while also examining the photographic processes and formats that shaped how this history was recorded and understood. These images document how cigars were made, sold, and experienced, while revealing their enduring place within visual culture as markers of identity, status, labor, and social life.
180 pages | 250+ images | 7.5” x 8.5” | Softcover | 978-1-936002-17-7 | 2026
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