Sweet caporal

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The Kinney Tobacco Company was an American cigarette manufacturing firm that created the Sweet Caporal cigarette brand and promoted it with collectible trading cards. Being a leading cigarette manufacturer of the s, it merged in into the American Tobacco Company. During the Depression of —79 , the production of cigars, pipe, chewing and snuff tobacco in the United States mostly stagnated; however, cigarette production, took off from 28 million in —to million in During the first post-depression year, million cigarettes were manufactured. Seeing the commercial opportunity, Francis S.

Sweet caporal

In his so-called Tobacco still-lifes executed at the beginning of the s, which, like the present Sweet Caporal belonging to the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection, were inspired by cigarette packs, he not only exploits the formal potential of such packages but is interested in them as cultural products. Perhaps, as Bonnie L. Grad suggests, this appropriation of different quotidian objects is inspired by the Dadaist works of Marcel Duchamp. Employing a language inherited from synthetic Cubism, in Sweet Caporal Davis shows his fascination with reproducing the words printed on the packaging of modern consumer products or billboards, which he furthermore uses as a device for emphasising the flatness of the pictorial composition. Cubism provided him with the key to making the transition from perception to conceptualization and he embraced a new type of painting based on Cubist collages with a series of overlapping planes, in a continual interplay of perspective and two-dimensionality. However, photographed works are protected by copyright. Therefore, regardless of the terms of use of the images set out below by the Foundation, it will be necessary to obtain a license from VEGAP www. Use for educational and research purposes is understood as the non-commercial or advertising use of images in presentations, conferences, school or university work, in classes at regulated education institutions, as well as in academic publications, with a circulation of less than 1, copies, provided that it is non-profit. Non-commercial use is understood as the use of the images in a context where no profit, monetary or commercial, is generated, directly or indirectly. Any request for educational and research use or for non-commercial use including academic publications , should be directed by email to the Museum Photo Library through the email address archivo.

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Shortly after picking up a handful more as a novelty than anything , I found about low-grade cards with the backs mostly missing. They were inexpensive on an individual basis but, collectively, still cost a good amount of money. Despite knowing little about the set, really, in terms of who was in it, I was desperate to find out more. So I bought them. Dated to around , they are similar in appearance to the more popular N Old Judge baseball cards , which also originate from that era. These cards feature real sepia photographs affixed to thick pieces of cardboard with advertisements for Sweet Caporal on the back. Vintage Non-Sports Auctions says there are about 2,, different cards, not accounting for the back variations. Like Old Judge cards, you can find them with all sorts of minor size differences. Many of the pictures have faded over the years and premiums exist for ones with strong images.

Sweet caporal

Celluloid button with photographic image of "The Misses Volk," two young women posed cheek to cheek. On the back a paper insert reads "Sweet Caporal Cigarette," and may be an advertisment for that company. Date Made: after

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Wikimedia Commons. Kinney even invited experienced cigarette-rollers from Europe to serve as instructors. Retrieved Tools Tools. Resources for Research The Met's Libraries and Research Centers provide unparalleled resources for research and welcome an international community of students and scholars. Physical Output of Selected Manufactured Commodities: to On October 6, , the Kinney's production and logistics complex on West 22nd Street was gutted by a five-alarm fire. Part 2, Series P Patrick Henry Bruce. Visit online shop.

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