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  • 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

    Conditions Governing Access

    Advance notice required for access.

    Biographical / Historical

    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.

    Preferred Citation

    [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.

    Scope and Content

    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."

    Conditions Governing Use

    All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

    Rights Statement for Archival Description

    Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

    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.