The Optimo cigar label for A. Santaella Cigar Company portrayed Sr. A. Santaella.

• Main Author: A. Santaella Cigar Company, 1900 ( Manufacturer )
• Other Authors: Cigar City Collection
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1900
• Subjects: Label ( Documentary Artifact; Communication Artifact ) ( nmc ); Cigar industry ( lctgm ); A. Santaella Cigar Company (NW Corner Howard Avenue and Pine Street) ( lctgm ); Cigar labels ( lctgm ); Outer label ( lctgm ); Optimo (cigar label with a portrait of A. Santaella) ( lctgm ); York Factory; Nome; Alaska
• Online Access: http://ufdc.ufl.edu/SF70000417/00001

Antonio Santaella opened a New York factory in 1889, a Key West factory a few years later and in 1905 constructed a tremendous three story structure in West Tampa, surrounded by a while picket fence on the southern most side of the building. His firm had a wide distribution for their cigars in Chica...