Industrial modernity and photographic records for the recovery of a socio-cultural memory as criteria to consider the El Buen Tono Tobacco and Cigar Factory cultural heritage

Abstract

The history of the tobacco industry in Mexico is ancient and colorful. Cigars and cigarettes were made individually until the 1880s; However, with the advent of modernization and industrial transformation, profound changes were achieved that permeated the technological process and had an impact on the social spheres. Changes around the sociocultural, economic, and political ideologies embodied through the architecture, organization, legislation, and stereotypes of workers; likewise its significant contribution to the masses in terms of its distribution (not only transportation but through its visual channels such as pamphlets, signs, comics, uniforms, advertisements, and billboards) where the beginning of the materialization of mass consumption would be found and of the creation of community, of urbanism, of the famous and so-called progress.