Tobacco Art: Mail Pouch Tobacco Barns

(Wikipedia) A Mail Pouch Tobacco Barn, or simply Mail Pouch Barn, is a barn with one or more sides painted from 1890 to 1992, in advertisement for the West Virginia Mail Pouch chewing tobacco company (Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company), based in Wheeling, West Virginia. At the height of the program in the early 1960s, there were about 20,000 Mail Pouch barns spread across 22 states. Continued

Photo: Mail pouch barn on historic National Road, Ohio (Carol M. Highsmith/Library of Congress).