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Big Tobacco in the Big Apple

How New York City Became the Heart of the Tobacco Industry
…and Anti Smoking Activism

The Cigarette Whitney

Children Think They Know What Philip Morris Makes (1:01)

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“It Takes Art”

Mayor Ed Koch at the opening of the Whitney Museum of American Art, located at the world headquarters of Philip Morris
Photograph credit: New York City Department of Records/Municipal Archives
April 8, 1983

“Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris”

Photograph of Alan Blum, MD
1985

“Stuart Davis: An American in Paris”

Catalogue of Philip Morris-sponsored art exhibition
1987

“Welcome to the Whitney Museum Cancer Branch”

Fags Against Fags flyer protesting the Whitney Museum and its support by Philip Morris
Circa 1990

“Whitney Kids Family Guide”

Brochure, front and back covers
2003

“Paul Henry Ramirez: Space Addiction”

Art exhibition brochure, front and back covers
2002

“Very Powerful Lords”

Art exhibition catalogue, “Mark Bradford: Very Powerful Lords,” interior pages
2003

“Whitney at Altria 20th Anniversary Public Programs”

Brochure
2003

“Whitney at Altria”

Letterhead
October 2004

“Cool Art by Cool Artists.”

Philip Morris advertisement for Whitney Biennial 2006
The New York Times, page 11
March 29, 2006

“Whitney Branch at Altria to close on January 29”

Press release
January 23, 2008

Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria: 25 Years

Book
Whitney Museum of American Art
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press
2008

“The Whitney at Altria has forever broadened the cultural landscape of our city”

Statement by Altria
Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria: 25 Years, page 7
Whitney Museum of American Art
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press
2008

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