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Improvements in Pipes and Cigar-Holders.

Description: Patent for new and improvements in Combined Pipes and Cigar-Holders which consists in "forming or constructing the pipe with an intermediate chamber which serves as a receptacle for a sponge or other absorbent porous material." (Lines 15-20) Illustrations are included.
Date: December 5, 1871
Creator: Bond, Virgil A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Portrait of Unknown men]

Description: Portrait of a group of unknown men. The men are posing in front of a back drop with a set that looks like a house next to them. All of the men are wearing suits and hats, and many of them are holding cigars. "Fey & Braunig Cuero, Texas" is written in the lower left corner, and "May 20, 1883" is written in the lower right corner.
Date: May 20, 1883
Creator: Fey & Braunig
Partner: Friench Simpson Memorial Library

Self Cigar Lighter.

Description: Patent for a new and improved self-lighting cigar. This design consists in "[a]n attachment for cigars, consisting of a metallic holder having spring-arms . . . and a projecting portion adapted to hold the igniting composition, and a disk adapted to bear upon the outer end of the cigar" (lines 6-11).
Date: June 3, 1890
Creator: West, Thomas & Turner, Ephraim M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Cigar-Tip Cutter and Match-Safe.

Description: Patent for a combined cigar tip cutter and match-safe that consists of a shaft, an operating lever, a match box under the lever, a link that attaches the match box to the lever, a coiled spring that is attached to the lever, a curved lever that is lined up to the other lever, a spring connecting the two levers, and a picker.
Date: April 4, 1893
Creator: Briggs, William J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cigar-Package.

Description: Patent for an improved cigar-package that complies "with all the requirements of the revenue laws, to be retailed to purchasers, who destroy the stamp upon opening the package, the construction being such that the packages thus opened can be used as pocket cases for the protection of the cigars" (lines 21-27).
Date: June 5, 1894
Creator: Philipson, Sigmund
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Joseph Beck Matthews]

Description: Photograph of Joseph Beck Matthews, an elder, bearded man wearing an overcoat, vest, and pocket watch while holding a cigar in one hand and a hat in the other. He is standing next to a building that has a stone ground level and a wooden upper level with windows. A plant trellis with a bare plant rises behind him.
Date: 1895~
Creator: Greer's Studio
Partner: Matthews Family and Lambshead Ranch

Stem for Tobacco-Pipes or Cigar-Holders.

Description: Patent for a stem for tobacco-pipes and cigar-holders designed to prevent nicotine from being inhaled. "The object in view is to provide a stem consisting of detachable members to facilitate cleansing when foul" (lines 11-14). The pipe is a serpentine shape and contains cotton filters in its crooks.
Date: September 29, 1896
Creator: Sjolander, Eric O.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric Cigar-Lighter.

Description: Patent for a cigar lighter in which the cigar is lit on a glowing surface, improves on the ease of operating a cigar lighter, and provides space for an advertisement.
Date: May 4, 1897
Creator: Handshy, Henry M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Diffey's Hotel Dining Room

Description: Two women employees wait on three unidentified customers in the dining room at Duffy's Hotel. The sign behind the cash register says, " ROOMS 50 cents, PURE APPLE CIDER, OYSTERS". Cigars are for sale as well.
Date: 1904~
Partner: Clay County Historical Society

Coin-Controlled Vending Machine

Description: Patent for a coin operated vending machine for selling cigars or other objects in round or square packages which can deliver the correct number of products regardless of how many coins are inserted into the machine to equal the selling price.
Date: July 16, 1907
Creator: Wilson, John C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Postcard of Smoking Bird]

Description: Postcard of a bird body with a clown head smoking a cigar. Part of the postcard is missing, but the text that is left on the front of the card says, "If you're a bird - chirp!" Most of the handwritten note on the back of the postcard is missing as well, but it is addressed to Abner Rayburn.
Date: September 7, 1911
Partner: Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site

Show-Case.

Description: Patent for a show-case for cigars that can be opened at various points by levers.
Date: November 14, 1911
Creator: Kainer, Frank
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Show-Case

Description: Patent for a show case for cigars that easily opens and closes.
Date: July 23, 1912
Creator: Lobenstein, Mack L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Diffey's Hotel

Description: Mr. Diffey, wearing a vest, is seated behind the desk in the lobby at Diffey's Hotel. Behind him are cigars for sale, a clock, calendar, and thermometer.
Date: May 1915
Partner: Clay County Historical Society

Candy-Wrapping Machine.

Description: Patent for a candy and small object wrapping machine that automatically cuts, feeds, and positions paper, making use of a folding arm. Intended to significantly decrease time taken to wrap small objects by hand.
Date: July 16, 1918
Creator: Greer, John H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Men enjoying a smoke break]

Description: Photograph of a group of men socializing together outside in the shade. Two of them are sitting on a bench on the left, and the rest are standing, a couple of them are smoking cigars. A man on the bench is having a conversation with one of the men standing, and the rest are listening to the conversation. There are trees in the background.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of coal miners socializing in the canteen]

Description: Photograph of a group of coal miners standing around a table made of wood boards getting hot drinks at the canteen. Tow women are handing out the drinks. Several people are holding coffee cups, one person is smoking a cigar, and many of them are wearing hats or hardhats with headlamps. overtop all of them is a tarp held up by ropes. On the right side is a wall covered in wooden boards and a door leading out.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Curves are Trumps ]

Description: A spread from Esquire magazine featuring an illustration of a redhead Varga Girl flying styled to a card and gambling theme paired with a two stanza verse "Curves are Trumps" by Phil Stack. On the following side of the spread is a reproduction offset lithograph print of sketches and photographs celebrating fathers day clipped from the June edition of Esquire Magazine in 1943.
Date: June 1941
Creator: Vargas, Alberto; Stack, Phil & De Vos, Leon
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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