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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.
Size | 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 50 items) |
Abstract | Leonard Rapport was involved in the writing of an essay entitled "People of Tobacco," written for the North Carolina Federal Writers' Project. The collection includes drafts and photocopies of the essay chapters. Topics covered in the essay include market days, tobacco cultivation, the history of tobacco in North Carolina from the Colonial period to the 1900s, the development of Durham, N.C., and Winston-Salem, N.C., as tobacco towns and the influence of the Duke family and Reynolds family, and the influence of technology. Also included in the collection are drafts of life history interviews, clippings, and publications about tobacco cultivation and manufacture. |
Creator | Rapport, Leonard, 1913- |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, July 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.
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Leonard Rapport (1913-2008) of Durham, N.C., was an author and archivist who was involved in the North Carolina Federal Writers' Project, 1938-1941.
Back to TopCollection includes manuscript and photocopied portions of a draft of an essay entitled "People of Tobacco," written by Leonard Rapport and others for the North Carolina Federal Writers' Project. Topics covered in the essay include market days, tobacco cultivation, the history of tobacco in North Carolina from the Colonial period to the 1900s, the development of Durham and Winston-Salem as tobacco towns and the influence of the Duke and Reynolds families, and the influence of technology. Also included in the collection are drafts of life history interviews, clippings, and publications about tobacco cultivation and manufacture.
Back to TopFolder 1a |
Original finding aid |
Folder 1 |
Plans |
Related articles |
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Folder 2 |
Drafts of Preface and Table of Contents |
Folder 3-5
Folder 3Folder 4Folder 5 |
Chapter I: "Tobacco Comes to Town," photocopies |
Folder 6 |
Chapter II: "Tobacco Country" |
Folder 7-9
Folder 7Folder 8Folder 9 |
Chapter III: "Thirteen Months' Hard Labor" |
Folder 10-11
Folder 10Folder 11 |
Chapter V: "The Co-Op that Failed" |
Folder 12-13
Folder 12Folder 13 |
Chapter VI: "Tobacco Towns," photocopies |
Folder 14-16
Folder 14Folder 15Folder 16 |
Chapter VII: "Machines that Pay their Keep" |
Folder 17 |
Folder number not used |
Folder 18 |
Chapter VIII: "The Smoky Future," photocopies |
Folder 19 |
Duplicates |
Folder 20 |
Clippings and printed material |