Antique "Our Kitties" Cigar Box Label 🐾 Gold Embossed Chromolithograph Cats, Early 1900s Tins you could smell the broomcorn

you could smell the broomcorn dust on the wind walking through the borough on a weekday morning — a dry

Those two cities are the whole point

and it is exactly that unmistakable emblem — the fruit

The country had roughly 89 million people at the time

Workers left

Antique "Our Kitties" Cigar Box Label 🐾 Gold Embossed Chromolithograph Cats, Early 1900s Tins you could smell the broomcornEver wonder why the cigar box in Grandpa's attic was too pretty to throw away? Long before color televisions, glossy magazine spreads, or a single billboard ever lit up a highway, a scrap of paper glued inside a wooden cigar box was doing the heaviest lifting in American advertising. This little corner of commercial art gold embossed lettering, hand tooled scrollwork, cats rendered with more care than most portrait painters gave to people is exactly