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Cigar Box Lithographs: The Inside Stories Uncovered, Paperback/Charles J. Humber - FriesenPress


Cigar Box Lithographs: The Inside Stories Uncovered, Paperback/Charles J. Humber
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Description Cigar BOX Lithographs: The Inside Stories Uncovered is a thought-provoking production exposing its readership to more than 160 vintage Cigar boxes manufactured during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Peer long enough and the box just might whisper its past to you.....
To this day, this nearly 120-year old collectible Cigar container whispers its provocative past, that is, providing one takes time out to lift its lid and peer at the lithographic image waiting to be re-discovered or uncovered....
Cigar boxes from the past often became an educational platform inadvertently recording and preserving history.
This is where his most famous novel was written.
The cartouche to the right of his portrait details his writing studio in Crawfordsville, Indiana.
By examining the cartouche to the left of this stunning label portrait, one detects Wallace\'s role as a General during the Civil War, especially at the Battle of Shiloh.
His Ben Hur (see page 34), a novel that was turned into a Hollywood blockbuster winning a record eleven Oscars in 1959, was certainly the most read and the best-known book title during the 20th century, that is, until it was superseded by Gone with the Wind in the 1930s.
World-famous during his day, he was not only a Major General during the Civil War but became more famous when he wrote what some consider to be the best-selling novel of the 19th century.
Lew Wallace (1827- 1905), portrayed in this stunning portrait label, is virtually a forgotten name today.
While puffers more than one hundred years ago likely recognized the prominent personalities peering at them from the Inside labels of these wooden Cigar boxes, those same headlined names, today, are now essentially erased from memory.
Such Cigar boxes during the 19th century attracted a massive smoking cliental numbering in the millions....
Most convey stunning litho- graphs that portray prominent historical figures.
Description Cigar BOX Lithographs: The Inside Stories Uncovered is a thought-provoking production exposing its readership to more than 160 vintage Cigar boxes manufactured during the late 19th and early 20th centuries


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