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These three tobacco tags were recovered during the 2016 Kansas Archeology Training Program at the Last Chance Store in Council Grove. Tobacco tags began as a way to brand or advertise a particular company's tobacco and were attached to twists of tobacco. They were first used in Cuba in the 1860s and were made in the United States into the 1920s. These three tags are very plain, but some were highly decorated. By the 1870s people were begin to collect and trade these interesting items.
Date: 1860-1929
Item Number: 440110
Call Number: 14MO367-79-18; 14MO367-95-53; 14MO367-275-1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 440110
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Collections - Archeology
Home and Family - Daily life - Leisure - Smoking
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Site Name - Last Chance Store
Places - Cities and towns - Council Grove
Places - Counties - Morris
Places - Historic sites - Last Chance Store
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Thematic Time Period - Trails, 1821 - 1880
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