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Prints depicting tobacco cultivation, processing and trade

Title
Prints depicting tobacco cultivation, processing and trade [graphic].
Publication
[172?-188-]

Details

Additional Authors
  • Hunt, H. W.
  • Sheppard, William Ludwell, 1833-1912.
  • Laurie & Whittle. pbl
  • Sackett & Wilhelms Litho. & Prt. Co. pbl
Description
<44> prints : aquatint, engraving, lithograph, some col.; 41 x 52 cm. or smaller
Summary
Prints depicting tobacco cultivation (sowing, hilling, transplanting, tilling, layering and topping, worming, drying, and preparing for market); tobacco processing (hand and machine processing and production of tobacco, cigars and cigarettes, factory buildings, men rolling cigars, women rolling cigarettes and using a library in the factory); tobacco trade (tobacco auctions, including an African American playing a long horn, references to the South Sea Bubble and tobacco monopolies); a mass for women tobacco workers in Spain; a sheet of 15 images that may be examples of labels, some depicting smoking. Someimages depict Indians holding tobacco.
Uniform Title
  • Encyclopédie.
  • Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques.
Subject
  • Africans
  • African Americans
  • Auctions > Virginia
  • Barns
  • Cigar industry
  • Cigarette industry > Virginia
  • Cigarette industry > Spain
  • Contests
  • Indians of North America
  • Libraries > Virginia
  • Machinery
  • Monopolies > Netherlands
  • Musicians
  • Plowing
  • Smoking in art
  • Smuggling
  • Snuff
  • South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720
  • Sowing
  • Streets > New York (State) > New York
  • Tobacco in art
  • Tobacco curing
  • Tobacco farmers > Barbados
  • Tobacco farms
  • Tobacco > Harvesting
  • Tobacco package labels
  • Tobacco pipes
  • Tobacco plantations > United States
  • Tobacco > Diseases and pests
  • Tobacco > Storage
  • Wagons
  • Warehouses
  • Women > Employement
  • Women > Tobacco use
Genre/Form
  • Advertisements.
  • Aquatints.
  • Engravings.
  • Etchings.
  • Lithographs.
  • Prints – American.
  • Prints – Dutch.
  • Prints – French.
  • Wood-engraving.
Note
  • Title devised by cataloger.
  • Titles and legends in English, Dutch and French.
  • Includes prints made or published by: W.L. Sheppard, H.W. Hunt, Robert Laurie and James Whittle, and Sackett and Wilhelm.
  • Includes plates issued to accompany Encyclopédie, ou, Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts, et des métiers, edited by Diderot and D'Alembert. Plates published under title: Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques. Paris, 1762-1772.
  • Plate marks, when present, range in size from 10 x 13 cm. to 41 x 52 cm.
Access (note)
  • Restricted access;
Call Number
Arents Prints 96-347
OCLC
NYPG96-F165
Title
Prints depicting tobacco cultivation, processing and trade [graphic].
Imprint
[172?-188-]
Restricted Access
Restricted access; Arents Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
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Local Subject
Streets -- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Added Author
Hunt, H. W. Publisher
Sheppard, William Ludwell, 1833-1912. Engraver
Laurie & Whittle. Publisher
Sackett & Wilhelms Litho. & Prt. Co. Publisher
Added Title
Encyclopédie.
Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques.
Research Call Number
Arents Prints 96-347
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