The American Tobacco Company was a tobacco company founded in 1890 by J. B. Duke through a merger between a number of U.S. tobacco manufacturers including Allen and Ginter, Goodwin & Company, and Kinn
James Buchanan Duke, founder
Early Cross-Cut and Cameo cigarette packs by W. Duke & Sons Co
Child laborers at American Tobacco Company in Wilmington, Delaware, 1910, photo by Lewis Hine
1914 Bull Durham ad appealing to the experienced smoker who prefers to roll his own cigarettes—the "thirty-third degree smoke veteran"
James Buchanan Duke was an American tobacco and electric power industrialist best known for the invention of modern cigarette manufacture and marketing techniques, and his involvement with Duke Univer
American Tobacco Company
…The American Tobacco Company was a tobacco company founded in 1890 by J. B. Duke through a merger between a number of U.S. tobacco manufacturers including Allen and Ginter, Goodwin & Company, and Kinney Brothers. The company was one…
James B. Duke House on Fifth Avenue, New York, as seen in 2010
Statue of James B. Duke in front of the West Campus Quad, pictured in July 2008