(The Art of) Spainish Rolling Papers

Rolling Papers from Spain

León (Pascual Ivorra Carbonell) Alcoy, 1930.


El Gato Negro (Hijos De Juan Soler) Alcoy, 1900.

El oso blanco (Pascual Ivorra Carbonell) Alcoy, 1902.


La Xatina (Miguel Botella Y Hermano) Alcoy, 1918.


El Liberal (Hijos de Juan Soler) Alcoy, 1901.

Futbol (Mercedes Albiñana) Barcelona, 1923.


Laca (Papeleras Reunidas) Alcoy.


Les Cyclistes (Vincente Reig Valor) Alcoy, 1904.


Papel Gijon (José Laporta Valor) Alcoy, 1901.


All images were scanned by myself from Jose Lorente's beautiful book El papel de fumar: Rolling Paper Graphics [link]

• Online Cigarette Paper Catalogue [link]

• more online rolling papers scans [link]

Duke's 'Coins of All Nations' Cigarette Cards

Duke's (W. Duke Sons & Co.) "Coins of All Nations" cigarette cards (c. 1900) -

Caricature of country citizen with coin drawn on cards. One of many cigarette card series given in packs of cigarettes in the late 19th and early 20th century.

more cards can be found at Duke University's digital collections [link]

more info on cartophily ("the hobby of collecting cigarette cards") [link]

Calypsonian Kings

three calypsonian kings - Lord Kitchener, Lord Superior, and Lord Melody. 1962.

Robert Bresson Film Posters

L'argent (Money) (1983)


Le diable probablement (The Devil Probably) (1977)

designer - Raymond Savignac

Lancelot du Lac (Lancelot of the Lake) (1974)

designer - Raymond Savignac

Quatre nuits d'un rêveur (Four Nights of a Dreamer) (1971)




Une femme douce (A Gentle Woman) (1969)



designer - Raymond Savignac

Mouchette (1967)


Au hasard Balthazar (1966)

designer - Neugebauer Jacek

Procès de Jeanne d'Arc (The Trial of Joan of Arc) (1962)

Pickpocket (1959)



designer - Hibner Maciej

Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (A Man Escaped) (1956)

designer - Craig Fischer





Journal d'un curé de campagne (Diary of a Country Priest) (1951)

designer - Paul Colin


designer - Manfredo Tafuri

Les dames du Bois de Boulogne (The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne) (1945)


Les Anges du péché (Angels of the Streets) (1943)

Other People's Memories

photos from my favorite flickr account (superbomba) [link]