Sauer, Farrell, & Co. records, 1870-1937 and undated

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Sauer, Farrell, & Co. records, 1870-1937 and undated

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Collection comprises ledgers, account books, order forms, and other ephemera relating to the sale and purchase of cigars by the company. Materials range in date from the 1870s through the early 1900s, and it is believed that the cigar company may have changed names throughout that period. The centerpiece of the collection is a specimen book of sample cigar box labels, created by the lithographers Heppenheimer & Maurer around 1878. The specimen book includes about 115 leaves, with labels affixed on each side of the leaf; the color ranges from two colors to multiple colors per label. Account books document cigar production, purchase, and sales information. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History. Heppenheimer & Maurer was a lithography company that created box labels for cigar manufacturers to paste on the inside lid of a box of cigars. Sample books like the one in this collection were distributed to local cigar manufacturers, who could then order the labels by their designated number. Frederick Heppenheimer, from New York City, was one of the earliest and most prolific commercial lithographers. He later partnered with Louis Maurer, another well-regarded artist, to create Heppenheimer & Maurer in 1872. Maurer was one of the few cigar label lithographers who regularly signed his work. The company was one of dozens of lithography companies from this period whose art reflected everyday life in the United States.

45 items (3.5 lin. ft.)

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7325323

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Heppenheimer & Maurer

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John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History

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Heppenheimer, Frederick, -1878

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Maurer, Louis, 1832-1932

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Louis Maurer was a German born lithographer and painter who spent much of his life in New York City. Born in 1832, he studied art as a boy in Mayence (Mentz), Germany. He emigrated to the United States with his parents in 1851 and found work with the publishing firm of T.W. Strong. He also worked for Currier & Ives for eight years before moving to Major and Knapp sometime around 1860-1861. From 1872-1884, Maurer headed the firm of Maurer and Heppenheimer. After his retirement, he continued t...

Sauer, Farrell, & Co.

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Sauer, Farrell, & Co. was a cigar manufacturing company located in Suffield, Connecticut, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Suffield was the site of the country's first cigar factory, which opened in 1810 after its owners hired a Cuban to teach its workers how to roll tobacco. The town became home to numerous factories that used local crops and sold a variety of cigars throughout the eastern United States. Not much is known about Sauer, Farrell, & Co. in particula...