Poster showing Liberty directing a well-dressed cigar smoker to buy bonds. United Cigar Stores Company. United Cigars.
Poster showing a portly man eating and smoking a cigar in a restaurant. United States Food Administration. No. 20.
A considerably idealized view of slave life in the American South, appearing on a printed label for cigars "expressly manufactured for Georgia and Alabama." The New York firm Salomon Brothers may have sought to appeal to Southern consumers and sympathizers in the tense period immediately preceding the Civil War. The illustration shows a tobacco plantation with manor house and a field in which black slaves harvest tobacco. In the foreground is a well-dressed black couple out for a stroll.|Entd . . . 1859 by Salomon Brothers . . . N.Y.|Title from item.|Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1859-4.
Drawn from Wheelan's 2019 work published by Norton, this reading provides a brief and engaging introduction to economics for high school students and beyond.See bottom half of document for Spanish version.