Wraps
1911 · Chicago
by [Alabama]
Chicago: Alabama Sumatra and Havana Tobacco Company, 1911. Wraps. Near fine. “The tobacco district of Baldwin County is practically owned by the Alabama Sumatra & Havana Tobacco Company. It extends from Summerdale to six miles north of Robertsdale on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, thence east to Perdido Bay, and comprises an area of almost fifteen square miles. About 20,000 acres of this large tract consists of choice tobacco land, half of which has already been sold.”
Touting the farmers who “made good” during the Sumatra Company’s first year, this promotional brochure offers prospective growers the opportunity to purchase tobacco land for $100 per acre in 5, 10, and 20-acre tracts. It extols the local climate and community and describes the company’s tobacco curing plant and factory in Summerdale, as well as other agricultural opportunities. More than a dozen testimonials are also included.
Despite initial successes, the Sumatra Company was in a state of financial disarray when its president, Thomas P. Hamm, died in 1912. It was soon reorganized as the Alabama Tobacco Company.
Booklet: 20 pp. with 11 photographic illustrations. Bound with two staples in printed tan paper wrappers (3 ½” x 8 ½”), with a regional map on two inner panels. The ink stamp of “J.H. Stoddard, Gen. Representative” appears above the blank mailing label. Near fine. Scarce, OCLC locates no holdings, with a similar promotional brochure (1909) at Auburn University. (Inventory #: 77864)
Touting the farmers who “made good” during the Sumatra Company’s first year, this promotional brochure offers prospective growers the opportunity to purchase tobacco land for $100 per acre in 5, 10, and 20-acre tracts. It extols the local climate and community and describes the company’s tobacco curing plant and factory in Summerdale, as well as other agricultural opportunities. More than a dozen testimonials are also included.
Despite initial successes, the Sumatra Company was in a state of financial disarray when its president, Thomas P. Hamm, died in 1912. It was soon reorganized as the Alabama Tobacco Company.
Booklet: 20 pp. with 11 photographic illustrations. Bound with two staples in printed tan paper wrappers (3 ½” x 8 ½”), with a regional map on two inner panels. The ink stamp of “J.H. Stoddard, Gen. Representative” appears above the blank mailing label. Near fine. Scarce, OCLC locates no holdings, with a similar promotional brochure (1909) at Auburn University. (Inventory #: 77864)
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