El Buen Tono, S.A., collection 0523
Diann Benti
USC Libraries Special Collections
2022 February
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, California 90089-0189
specol@usc.edu
Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: El Buen Tono, S.A., collection
Creator:
Buen Tono, S.A.
Identifier/Call Number: 0523
Physical Description:
.21 Linear Feet
1 box
Date (inclusive): early 1900s
Abstract: This small collection contains loose photographs, a photograph album, and lithographed promotional comic book for El Buen
Tono cigarette manufacturing company of Mexico City, dating from the early 1900s.
Language of Material:
Spanish; Castilian.
Container: 1
Advance notice required for access.
El Buen Tono was a cigarette manufacturing company located in Mexico City that was founded by French businessman Ernesto Pugibet
in the late 1800s. In 1899, the company was reestablished as "El Buen Tono S. A., Compañía Manufacturera del Cigarro sin pegamento."
The company closed around 1961.
[Box/folder no. or item name], El Buen Tono, S.A, Collection no. 0523, Boeckmann Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies,
Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.
This small collection contains loose photographs, a photograph album, and lithographed promotional comic book for El Buen
Tono cigarette manufacturing company of Mexico City, dating from the early 1900s. The 15 loose photographs and the album of
20 professional photographs depict the company's buildings, machinery, workers, automobiles and wagons, and manufacturing
process. The promotional comic book is titled "Album de Historietas" (1909).
Album cover title: "El Buen Tono, S. A. Compañía Manufacturera del Cigarro sin pegamento."
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items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Cigarette industry -- Mexico -- Photographs
Factories -- Mexico -- Photographs
Mexico -- Photographs
Mexico City (Mexico) -- Photographs
Photographs
Comic books, strips, etc.
Buen Tono, S.A. -- Photographs
Buen Tono, S.A. -- Comic books, strips, etc.