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USA: Advertisement for 'Murad' brand Turkish cigarettes featuring Orientalist themes including a camel caravan and Middle Eastern men and women working in a tobacco plantation, Sosterios Anargyros, New York, 1914

USA: Advertisement for 'Murad' brand Turkish cigarettes featuring Orientalist themes including a camel caravan and Middle Eastern men and women working in a tobacco plantation, Sosterios Anargyros, New York, 1914

In the early 1900s, manufactures of Turkish and Egyptian cigarettes tripled their sales and became major competitors to leading brands. The New York-based Greek tobacconist Soterios Anargyros produced hand-rolled Murad cigarettes, made of pure Turkish tobacco.

Many of the Murad advertisements others incorporated Orientalist motifs or models dressed in Middle Eastern dress.

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