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Concept

Tobacco industry

Images

  • Comic sketch of a fat man being rowed in a boat with the name of cigar importer below. Woodcut, early 19th century.
  • The manufacture of tobacco with leaves being sorted, dried, cured and pressed. Engraving, c. 1750.
  • A tobacco plantation in the Caribbean islands, with black workers and a white overseer. Engraving, 1683.
  • A tobacco plantation in the Caribbean islands, with black workers and a white overseer. Engraving, 1683.
  • An old smuggler (Mr Moffit) is shot dead by a naval inspector with a pistol, who finds rolls of tobacco in the dead man's pockets; other people attend the scene. Engraving by W. Greatbach, 1833, after F. Pickering.
  • Eight illustrations of the kiln used in baking clay tobacco pipes. Engraving by Mutlow, c. 1812, after J. Farey.
  • A London street scene, mid-19th century, with a tobacconist's shop. Wood-engraving.
  • Seventeen unlabelled figures illustrating clay tobacco pipe manufacture. Engraving, late-18th century.
  • Liberal value : 2 more cigarettes for your 6d. ... 'Plus Two' cigarettes, 12 for 6d.
  • A tobacco plantation with workers, a Mexican Indian (?) and two European masters. Coloured engraving, c. 1821.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Tobacco : a national danger ; what it is, and what it does / by Arthur E. Larking, M.D., D.P.H. (Camb), J.P.

    Larking, Arthur Ernest | Date: [1933?]
    • Pictures

    Three tobacco labels: one with bust of a man; one with leafy ornamentation; one with Bishop Blaze. Wood-engravings.

    | Reference: 25027i
    • Pictures

    Two pictures: a man sits by an empty barrel; a hooka and other smoking accessories. Wood-engravings.

    | Reference: 25019i
    • Books

    Drastic proposal by EEC Commission would be ineffective and illegal / Tobacco Advisory Council.

    | Date: [1991?]
    • Pictures

    Three pictures: two men smoking flank a tobacco label and plant; man smoking while leaning on a barrel; a labelled barrel of tobacco. Wood-engravings.

    | Reference: 25030i
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