{"id":7177,"date":"2016-04-28T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/?p=7177"},"modified":"2016-04-27T13:04:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T17:04:25","slug":"smokerama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2016\/04\/28\/smokerama\/","title":{"rendered":"Smokerama"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired\u00a0Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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If you are looking for “classic tobacco accoutrements” this volume of Smokerama<\/em> is just the ticket! \u00a0In today’s anti-smoking climate it may seem hard to imagine\u00a0that smoking was once\u00a0considered a sophisticated and glamorous habit and accessories for smoking were just as important as the cigarettes themselves.\u00a0 For example cigarette dispensers were quite popular and all of the various models had their own clever mechanism for dispensing.\u00a0 You would only have to depress this dapper gentleman’s spotted bow-tie and a cigarette (stored horizontally inside the head) would appear at his lips. \u00a0Or if you wanted to be a bit more whimsical you\u00a0could enjoy this Ronson penguin “Pik-a-Cig” which was both a dispenser and a lighter.\u00a0 Simply press the lever and a cigarette rolls to the bottom where it can be retrieved by the penguin and lit with the attached lighter.<\/p>\n

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Another big favorite from the thirties were these stylized bellhops who helpfully carried these bags of cigarettes.<\/p>\n

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Book matches have historically been used for\u00a0messages that advertise restaurants, bars, political campaigns, and other special events.\u00a0 But during World War II book matches were utilized\u00a0by many propaganda writers who created some memorable slogans such as “Make it Hot for Hitler.”<\/strong>\u00a0 These Strike ’em Dead<\/em> matches contained a row of Adolf matches dressed in army uniforms just waiting to be stuck dead when lit.<\/p>\n

\"Img0011\"<\/a>Women were also not left out of the occassion as tobacco companies began to target their business at\u00a0the turn of the century. \u00a0In a bid to get more women to buy cigarettes\u00a0they included these illustrated silks (really satin inserts) in packs of cigarettes, hoping that this prize would encourage their smoking habit. \u00a0These were associated with the more expensive cigarettes and consisted of flags, comic images, and women. \u00a0The companies\u00a0also made larger sizes of these “silks” that could be obtained as long as they had evidence of the purchase of cigarettes.<\/p>\n

To read more about America’s favorite pastime you can find this in Widener’s collection. Smokerama : classic tobacco accoutrements<\/a> \/ Philip Collins ; photography by Sam Sargent. San Francisco : Chronicle Books, c1992.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Alison Harris, Santo Domingo Project Manager, for contributing this post.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired\u00a0Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. If you are looking for “classic tobacco accoutrements” this volume of Smokerama is just the ticket! \u00a0In today’s anti-smoking climate it may seem hard to imagine\u00a0that smoking was once\u00a0considered a sophisticated and glamorous habit and accessories for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4490,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[72741],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-widener-library"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TUly-1RL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7177"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7201,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177\/revisions\/7201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}