Image Credits

What "Sun Grown" Actually Means (and Why the Leaf Pays for It)

• RanaAnees / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0

Top of the Plant, Top of the Punch: Ligero, Viso, and Seco

• Diamond News Co., Havana / Public domain
• Photo: Annick Vernimmen / CC BY-SA 4.0

Green to Yellow to Brown: What Happens Inside a Curing Barn

• Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress / Public domain
• Internet Archive Book Images / No known restrictions

The Kid Who Rolled Cohibas: The Long Road of Don Pepín García

• Photo: CigarKing / CC Attribution
• State Library and Archives of Florida / Public domain

A Son's Secret Project: How "My Father" Got Its Name

• Photo: BluesyPete / CC BY-SA 3.0
• Photo: Jack Fiallos / CC BY 2.0

A Borrowed Hammer and $600: The Founding of Padrón

• Photo: Adam Jones / CC BY-SA 2.0

The Wrapper They Said Couldn't Exist: The Birth of OpusX

• Photo: Ji-Elle / CC BY-SA 4.0
• Carlos Jordi, Havana / Public domain

Burned Out Twice: The Fires That Forged the Fuentes

• Public domain

Habano Means the Seed, Not the City

• Library of Congress / Public domain

Cloth Skies Over Connecticut: How New England Wraps the Mildest Cigars

• Jack Delano, Library of Congress / Public domain
• Photo: Elipongo / Public domain

The Secret Math on Your Cigar: What 52 Really Means

• Photo: Friman / CC BY-SA 3.0

Your New Cigars Are Sick. Rest Will Cure Them.

• Photo: Langinger / Public domain

The Little Paper Ring That Fought Counterfeiters

• Nationaal Archief / No known restrictions

What a Master Blender Actually Does All Day

• Photo: Giv von Koerber / CC BY-SA 3.0
• Photo: Steveprutz / CC0

The President's Last-Minute Cigar Run

• Cecil Stoughton, White House Photographs / Public domain

Why the Darkest Cigars Are Often the Sweetest

• Photo: RMR Cigar / CC BY-SA 3.0
• Photo: Adoniram / Public domain

Why Some Cigars Are Square

• Illustration: CigarMind
• Illustration: CigarMind

Cello On or Cello Off? Settling the Humidor's Oldest Argument

• Photo: Jungle Jim's International Market / CC BY 2.0
• Photo: Langinger / Public domain

Canoes, Tunnels, and Other Ways a Wet Cigar Misbehaves

• Photo: Adamantios / CC BY-SA 3.0
• Photo: Gliu / CC BY-SA 3.0

A Hundred Steps to a Churchill: The Torcedor's Long Apprenticeship

• State Library and Archives of Florida / Public domain

Smoke Born of Volcanoes: Why Nicaraguan Cigars Taste Like Their Dirt

• Photo: Claude Humbert / CC BY 3.0

Lounge Rules Nobody Hands You at the Door

• Photo: Web-master77 / CC BY-SA 4.0
• Photo: Elgaard / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Harvest That Takes All Season: How Tobacco Is Actually Picked

• Government photographer / Public domain

Calle Ocho: The Most Important Cigar Street in America

• Photo: Sharon Hahn Darlin / CC BY 2.0