Inside the New Cigarette Factory

The Liggett & Myers New Cigarette Factory, located at 701 West Main Street, was built in 1948 and housed several departments of the organization. This building was also known as the Chesterfield building, named after one brand of cigarette produced within and featured on a massive sign on the roof of the building. Processes that took place within this factory building included cutting and preparing tobacco leaf, preparing casing and flavoring, producing cigarettes and filters, and reviewing the cigarettes before packaging.

These photographs detail the various processes that took place in the New Cigarette building and the people involved.