Lenwood Coye Lewis Collection

1933, 1936
Manuscript Collection #1270
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Creator(s)
Cigaretten-Bilderdienst, G.m.b.H.
Physical description
0.2 Cubic Feet, 1 archival box, consisting of a book and cigarette cards
Preferred Citation
Lenwood Coye Lewis Collection (#1270), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA
Repository
ECU Manuscript Collection
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This collection contains the book Adolf Hitler: Bilder aus dem Leben des Fuhrers. It is a Nazi propaganda biography of Adolf Hitler (published in 1936) in the form of an album with text that includes 188 black and white and 5 colored mounted cigarette cards produced by Cigaretten-Bilderdienst. Also included are fifty-seven 4 7/8" x 6 5/8" and sixty-six 3 1/8" x 4 5/8" black and white Nazi propaganda cigarette cards (circa 1933).

Biographical/historical information

Adolf Hitler - Pictures of the Life of the Führer was published in 1936 by Cigaretten-Bilderdienst, a tobacco company in Altona-Bahrenfeld, Germany. The book had blank spaces for users to glue appropriate cigarette cards from collectable cigarette packs. As cards and albums became a new and popular form of the media in the early 1930s, the Nazi party developed this book to target youth and promote cigarettes, tobacco and the early Nazi regime.

Sources:

Holocaust Center for Humanity https://www.holocaustcenterseattle.org/cigarette-card-docent-training

Holocaust & Intolerance Museum of New Mexico https://www.nmholocaustmuseum.org/library/hitler.html

Scope and arrangement

The book covers Hitler's life, including childhood, World War I service, paintings, and his political career. In addition, it contains a biography of Nazi leaders, and spaces to glue appropriate cigarette cards. The collection also contains 66 (3 1/8" x 4 5/8") black and white Nazi cigarette cards and 57 (4 7/8" x 6 5/8") black and white Nazi cigarette cards.

Administrative information
Custodial History

April 13, 2016 0.2 cubic feet; This collection contains the book Adolf Hitlaer: Bilder aus dem Leben des Fuhrers. It is a Nazi propaganda biography of Adolf Hitler (published in 1936) in the form of an album with text that includes 188 black and white and 5 colored mounted cigarette cards produced by Cigaretten-Bilderdienst. Also included are fifty-seven 4 7/8" x 6 5/8" and sixty-six 3 1/8" x 4 5/8" black and white Nazi propaganda cigarette cards (circa 1933). Gift of Lenwood Coye Lewis in honor of his children Elizabeth Ann Lewis Turner, Deborah Gayle Lewis Reiman, and Lenwood Bryant Lewis.

Source of acquisition

Gift of Lenwood Coye Lewis in honor of his children Elizabeth Ann Lewis Turner, Deborah Gayle Lewis Reiman, and Lenwood Bryant Lewis

Processing information

Processed by Aleck Tan, January 2020

Copyright notice

Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.

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Key terms
Personal Names
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945--Pictorial works
Topical
Cigarette cards--Germany
Heads of state--Germany--Biography
Nazi propaganda--Germany
Container list
Box 1 Folder a Item 1 Black and White Nazi Propaganda Cigarette Cards, 3 1/8" x 4 5/8", 1933
Box 1 Folder a Item 2 Black and White Nazi Propaganda Cigarette Cards, 4 7/8" x 6 5/8", 1933
Box 1 Folder b Adolf Hitlaer: Bilder aus dem Leben des Fuhrers propaganda biography, 1936