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Sidney Voice collection of cigar bands

Call Number

PR 241

Date

circa 1890-1963, inclusive

Creator

Voice, Sidney P., 1906-1982

Extent

4.36 Linear feet in 8 boxes of chromolithographed cigar bands.

Language of Materials

The documents in the collection are in English.

Abstract

Cigar bands and cigar box labels, most clearly marked with the brand and company of cigar, collected by Sidney P. Voice, vice-president of the Consolidated Lithographing Corporation in Brooklyn, which produced many of these items. The collection includes several salesman's sample books for New York lithographing companies.

Biographical / Historical

Sidney Voice was the vice-president of Consolidated Lithographing Corporation in Brooklyn.

Arrangement

The collection is organized by format: Cigar Bands, Cigar Box Labels, Cigar Edgings, and Registration Certificates.

Scope and Contents

The Sidney Voice Collection of Cigar Bands spans the period from circa 1890 to circa 1963 and contains cigar bands, cigar box labels, and salesman's sample books for New York and Brooklyn lithographers. A few registration certificates for cigar brand names are also included. Cigar bands are housed loose, pasted onto boards, and pasted into albums.

Access Restrictions

Open to qualified researchers by appointment only. To schedule an appointment, contact the Print Room Librarian at printroom@nyhistory.org.

Use Restrictions

Photocopying undertaken by staff only. Limited to 20 exposures of stable, unbound material per day. Application to use images from this collection for publication should be made in writing to: Department of Rights and Reproductions, The New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024-5194, rightsandrepro@nyhistory.org. Phone: (212) 873-3400 ext. 282.

Copyrights and other proprietary rights may subsist in individuals and entities other than the New-York Historical Society, in which case the patron is responsible for securing permission from those parties. For fuller information about rights and reproductions from N-YHS visit: www.nyhistory.org/about/rights-reproductions

Preferred Citation

This collection should be cited as: Sidney Voice Collection of Cigar Bands, PR-241, Department of Prints, Photographs, and Architectural Collections, The New-York Historical Society.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Sidney P. Voice, 1973, 1977, and 1983.

Related Materials

Additional cigar labels can be found in the Bella C. Landauer Collection of Business and Advertising Ephemera (PR-031), the Ephemera Collection (PR-264), and the Amie Karp Collection of Tobacciana (PR-392). More cigar printing done by the Consolidated Lithographing Corp. can be found in the Kane-Greenberg Collection of Progressive Proof Prints (PR-242).

Collection processed by

Jenny Gotwals and Sandra Markham (2004); migrated to ArchivesSpace by Joseph Ditta (2020)

About this Guide

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-08-21 15:46:36 -0400.
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Language: Finding aid written in English

Processing Information

Collection inventoried by Jenny Gotwals and Sandra Markham (August 2004). WORD-document finding aid migrated to ArchivesSpace by Joseph Ditta (July 2020).

Repository

New-York Historical Society
New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West
New York, NY 10024