Cigarette Packages
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Brown and Williamson.
label: Collection Creator
content: Johnson, Virgil
label: Collection Creator
content: American Tobacco Company.
label: Collection Creator
content: Benson and Hedges.
label: Collection Creator
content: Philip Morris, Inc.
label: Collection Creator
content: Lorillard.
label: Collection Creator
content: Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company.
label: Collection Creator
content: Reynolds, R. J.
setName: label: See more items in
content: Virgil Johnson Collection of Cigarette Packages
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1890-1997
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0645, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Series 1: Cigarette Packages, 1890-1997 Packages were carefully unfolded and flattened by the collector, then mounted with Duco cement on heavyweight 11" x 17" paper. For each package there are also a cigarette wrapper and a sample of the filter material.

Subseries 1.1: Foreign Cigarettes manufactured and/or sold in foreign countries, including American cigarettes sold overseas. They are organized by country of origin and then under alphabetically by name of manufacturer.

Subseries 1.2: American Cigarettes manufactured and sold in the United States; arranged alphabetically by name of manufacturer.

Subseries 1.3: Index Cards Card file index maintained by the collector cross-referencing name and manufacturer and indicating album location, date, and other identifying information for each pack. Boxes 22 and 23 are foreign cigarettes arranged alphabetically by brand. Box 24 is American cigarettes arranged alphabetically by brand.