CIGARS: From Seed to Smoke, A Photographic History

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Description

Cigars: From 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 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.

By: Elizabeth A. Burns & Stanley B. Burns, MD