Cigar History will ultimately be a very large exhibit involving 7,500+ photographs and hundreds of chapters detailing all aspects of the industry here and abroad.


        The Site Outline shows the direction this portion of the National Cigar Museum is going.


        I hope to have a goodly number of exhibits completed by the end of 2009. Some pictorial exhibits may be up by the end of this year. General histories will take longer than the pictorials

 

Cigar History

A National Cigar Museum Gallery

© Tony Hyman


Exhibits Open



Cigar History 1460-1760

The spread of tobacco



Cigar History 1760-1860

The spread of cigars



Cigar History 1860-1910

The Golden Age



Cigar History 1910-1960

The Machine Age



Important_events

OPEN: more coming



Earliest_boxes

When they held 1000



Selling Cigars

All sorts of ways



Cigar Salesmen

Hard working guys



Street vendors

A hard life



Cigar displays in stores

Let me count the ways



Censorship and cigars

To boob or not to boob



Tools

The dozen tools needed



Cigar-Makers-Union

Set the standards



White Labor

The anti-Chinese era



Huge Gimmick Cigars

Smoke that!



Box_patents

Inventive or weird



Cigar_patents

Weird two



More_patents

Weird three


 

Coming Attractions



Important_companies

Partially finished



Cigar factories

Late 2008



Rise_of_machines

Coming



How boxes are made

Late 2008



How tins are made

Late 2008



Flavorings

Coming