Anyone familiar with the history of camel cigarettes?
I came across a print at a yard sale and a friend of mine said it might be worth something. I did some research to find out exactly what it was of. Its a black and white print that depicts a man with a camel, and there is also a letter that has been scaled down on the right side. The camel's name was "old joe" and he was with barnum and baileys traveling circus. I don't know the mans name. The letter is addressed to barnum and bailey greater circus from rj reynolds and is dated 9/29/13. It requests for the approval of a photograph to be taken of both a camel and a dromedary for the brand of a turkish cigarette they were about to put on the market. Is this special or is it a common print?
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CAMEL CIGARETTES (Warning: The Surgeon General Has Determined That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Your Health.) Richard Joshua Reynolds, founder of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in Winston, N.C., introduced Camel cigarettes to the American public in 1913. The camel symbol was chosen because the cigarette was made from Turkish tobaccos and, supposedly, had an "exotic" flavor. When "Old Joe," a camel traveling with the Barnum and Bailey circus, came to town, Reynolds dispatched an employee to get a picture of the dromedary for an advertising campaign. Old Joe refused to play "model," tossed his head and tail about, and made threatening advances on the cameraman. The resulting "indignant" snapshot has been reproduced on billions of packages of Camel cigarettes. The slogan for Camels supposedly came from conversation between a hobo and a sign painter employed by the Reynolds Company. After bumming a cigarette from the painter, the hobo spoke the well-known words, "I'd walk a mile for a Camel."
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