Tag: Anthony Comstock

Image of a cigar box with a painting of nude women in a forest

Lifting the Lid on Cigar Boxes at Winterthur

Amy Werbel

Last spring, I found enlightenment in the Winterthur Library. I was there to look for images of nudes on tobacco advertisements, and I did find some, but also stumbled across some surprising and unexpectedly beautiful chromolithographs that provided an epiphany about the relationship between censorship and culture at the turn of the twentieth century.

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