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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Tri-State Tobacco Growers Association Records, #3322, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Transferred from the University of North Carolina Library, October 1957.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, January 2009

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Cooperative marketing of farm produce--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Cooperative marketing of farm produce--South Carolina--History--20th century.
• Cooperative marketing of farm produce--Virginia--History--20th century.
• Frissell, Sydney D.
• Tobacco industry--North Carolina--Societies, etc.
• Tobacco industry--South Carolina--Societies, etc.
• Tobacco industry--Virginia--Societies, etc.
• Tobacco--Cooperative marketing--North Carolina--Societies, etc.
• Tobacco--Cooperative marketing--South Carolina--Societies, etc.
• Tobacco--Cooperative marketing--Virginia--Societies, etc.
• Tri-State Tobacco Growers Association.

The Tri-State Tobacco Growers Association was a cooperative association of tobacco growers in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Officers of the association included M. O. Wilson, of Raleigh, N.C.; L. E. Rogers; E. G. Moss; and Sydney D. Frissell.

Sydney D. Frissell was for a time the association's publicity director. While a graduate student in rural social economics at the University of North Carolina, Frissell conducted a study on cooperative marketing.

The collection includes administrative correspondence, reports received, statistics, mimeographed releases, articles and speeches, and miscellaneous other records of the secretary and other officers of the Tri-State Tobacco Growers Association. Also included are papers of Sydney D. Frissell in connection with his study of cooperative marketing.