[Rarebooks] FS: Red Lion Pennsylvania Cigar Factory Hildebrand Family Ledgers

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1897 & 1900 Red Lion Pennsylvania Cigar Factory Hildebrand Family Ledgers

Two ledgers, one for 1897 and one for 1900, by members of the  
Hildebrand family, detailing work and payments for the complicated  
process of manufacturing cigars. Red Lion, Pennsylvania was one of the  
most important cigar-making centers in the United States from the  
period after the Civil War until the Great Depression. Much of the  
work was sub-contracted out to individual families who supplied  
tobacco leaf and rolled the cigars for one or more of the 100+  
companies which operated there.

The Pennsylvania Heritage website explains- “Leaf for these  
home-rollers was raised on their own farms, or pur­chased from local  
farmers. Most was bought from Red Lion’s tobacco mer­chants, who  
supplied both domestic and imported leaf. As the demand for cigars  
rose after the Civil War, cigar making slowly became more organized.  
By the 1880s, the home factories could not keep up with the market,  
and the Dutch entrepreneurial spirit flowered. A well-organized system  
of subcontracting emerged in which a cen­tral office supplied tobacco,  
fanned out the labor to the hundreds of homes, then collected, boxed  
and marketed the finished product. Sometimes all the labor was farmed  
out. Mervin Kaltreider, whose father was an early cigar manufacturer,  
recalls this opera­tion. “These little factories in the houses would  
make the cigars for other manufacturers. Then we’d come and take the  
cigars and pack them” for shipment to the markets.”

Two business ledgers- 8”x12.5”, 85 pages used, and 7.5”x12”, 200  
pages, most of them used). Covers worn and soiled, the smaller ledger  
is quite worn, with several sets of pages detached but present, and  
pages folded, soiled, and worn. With- several Red Lion cigar  
billheads.  $600

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