Series IV: WEICHSEL TOBACCO COLLECTION
Scope and Contents note
This series is comprised of scrapbooks of tobacco product packaging, including those for cigarettes, cigars, loose tobacco, chewing tobacco, pipe tobacco. Also included are cigar bands, matchbook covers, newspaper clippings, and pieces of correspondence between Weichsel and the various agents from whom he procured either packaging or information about tobacco production and distribution in the various countries. The packaging is largely undated, and though there are pieces from the nineteenth century, most of the pieces appear to be mid-twentieth century, contemporary with Weichsel's collecting in the 1950s.
It is currently unclear whether Landauer herself acquired this collection before her death (as she often did) or if it was donated to the Society at a later date. Because of the ambiguity of the historical record, it has been kept within the confines of the Landauer collection.
The bulk of the collection is material from international tobacco companies. Countries represented include:
Aden
Afghanistan
Algeria
Andorra
Angola
Argentina
Australia (including Tasmania)
Austria
Azores
Belgium
Belize
Bolivia
Brazil
Bulgaria
Burma
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Estonia
Ethiopia
Fiji
Finland
France (including Reunion)
Gambia
Germany
Gibraltar
Great Britain: England; Ireland (including Northern Ireland); Scotland
Greece
Greenland
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Italy (including Trieste)
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kenya
Korea
Kuwait
Lebanon
Luxembourg
Libya
Madagascar
Malaysia
Malta
Mexico
Monaco
Morocco (Spanish Morocco)
Mozambique
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Nigeria
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal (including Madeira Island)
Puerto Rico
Romania
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Singapore
Somalia
Southern Africa countries (including Nyasaland, Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia, Transvaal)
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Tanzania (Tanganyika)
Thailand
Trinidad
Tunisia
Turkey
Uganda
Uruguay
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
Yugoslavia