Dick Swallowell in King Street Ward Factory
Credit LineGift of Mr. Robert B. Ward, London, Ontario, 1991
Object number1991.019.005A
Label TextHere, William Ward employee Dick Swallowell makes a cigar by hand. At step two of the process, he uses his left hand to handshape the filler leaves that he had already gathered and broken off to the right length. Next, he would have rolled the filler into the binder leaf. Last, Swallowell would have wound the wrapper leaf around the cigar and finished off both ends. It took years to perfect this technique.
NamePhotograph
c. 1940s
1915-1917