Questions re tobacco card production
 

Posted By: <b>Tim Newcomb</b><p>Maybe some of you experts can help me with these questions as I work on the VCBC article:<BR><BR>1. Is there a consensus about what the "factory" designations on T cards mean? Were these factories the site of the cigarette production, or the card printing, or both? <BR><BR>2. Another way of asking this: were the cards printed at the individual factories, or were they printed elsewhere and shipped to cigarette factories to be inserted into the packs?<BR><BR>3. DO we know what the numbers of the factories mean? "Factory No. 606 Dist MD" surely doesn't mean there were 606 American Tobacco Company factories in Maryland alone, right? <BR><BR>Maybe all this is general knowledge, but I don't seem to know it. Any help appreciated!<BR><BR>Tim Newcomb