Helen Kleinberg Photographs of the Partagas Royal Tobacco Company, Havana, Cuba
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Dates
- 1998
Creator
- Kleinberg, Helen (creator, Person)
- Royal Tobacco Company (creator, Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
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Biographical / Historical
Partags is among the oldest extant brands of cigars, established in Havana in 1845.
The Catalan Don Jaume Partags i Ravell, migrated to Cuba and founded with the help of a Lloret de Mar businessman, Joan Conill, a smal tobacco factory in Havana in 1827, before establishing his own factory, Real Fabricas de Tabaco Partagas in 1845. The name, which translates as "Partagas Royal Tobacco Factory".
Don Juaume was murdered (supposedly by a jealous rival he'd been vying with in one of his love affairs) on one of his plantations in either 1864 or 1868 and his son Josep partagas took over the business.
The factory and brand were later sold and turned over several times. In 2002, Altadis bought a controlling share in the Cuban government-owned cigar distributor, Habanos SA, and instituted a number of changes in cigar production.
After making several changes to production, Partagas now offers two machine-made cigarillos (the Mini and the Club) and a brand of cigarettes.
Extent
0.25 cubic feet
Quantity:
0.2 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Photographs.
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives 227 Ives Hall Tower Road Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheelref@cornell.edu https://catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel/
- Compiled by:
- Kheel Staff, March 20, 2013
- EAD encoding:
- Randall Miles, October 28, 2015
- Title
- Kleinberg, Helen Photographs of the Partagas Royal Tobacco Company, Havana, Cuba
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- October 28, 2015
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository