Box, Cigarette
- Object Name:
- Box, Cigarette
- Object ID:
- 1997.503.03
- Creator:
- The American Tobacco Company
Manufacturer - Place of Origin:
- New York
- Date:
- circa 1911
- Description:
- Cigarette Box, Mecca Cigarettes, 10 pack. Cardboard, printed in gold and blue. Front depicts image of a city with several mosques and towers and reads "MECCA / CIGARETTES". On back is a warning against illegal use of the box and tax stamp. Blue U.S. cigarette tax stamp on back, with following imprint: "The A.T. Co. / Factory No. 649 / First Dist., N.Y. / Sept. 25, 1911." 1/8" x 3 1/2" x 2 3/4".
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-0.125 W-3.5 D-2.75 inches
- Provenance:
- Objects found in skylight (east wing) at NHHS Library, March 1997. Objects include pair of shoes (.01), gum wrapper (.02), five cigarette packages (.03, .04, others discarded), and newspaper fragments from the Boston Post dated 1911 and 1934 (discarded).
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
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