Source: James N. Joyner Papers (#429), East Carolina Manuscript Collection Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: James Noah Joyner was born in 1888. He attended the University of North Carolina, and was later employed by the British-American Tobacco Company (B.A.T.) in China from 1912 to 1935. He worked and traveled the whole time he was in [...]
Source: James N. Joyner Papers (Manuscript Collection #429) Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: James N. Joyner (1888-1972), attended the University of North Carolina and graduated in 1910. He was employed by the British-American Tobacco Company (B.A.T.) in China from 1912 to 1935, returned to North Carolina to manage the family farm at LaGrange, and died at the [...]
Source: Junius D. Grimes Papers (#571) Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: Take a step back in time to 1914 Greenville, N. C., in this C. E. Weaver Series, “Illustrated Cities”, by Central Publishing Co., Inc., in Richmond, Virginia. Greenville was growing and changing: The Center Brick Warehouse was selling Bright Leaf Tobacco (93,762 pounds avg. [...]
Source: Barbour Boat Works, Inc. Records Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: This image offers a nice view of the Barbour Boat Works factory in New Bern, North Carolina. The business ended in the mid-1980s. Included in the Barbour Boat Works, Inc. Records are important ship drawings, correspondence and photos. We plan to add descriptions of all [...]
Source: Daily Reflector Negative Collection #741.11.a.7 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: In this August 1956 image taken for the Greenville, N.C., Daily Reflector newspaper, African American women are sorting tobacco at the Imperial Tobacco Company factory. Many other images related to tobacco production from the field, to the barns, to the warehouse, and finally to the [...]
Source: Albert R. Smith Collection #9.1.b.23 Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: This Teacher’s First Grade Certificate, dated 12 Oct. 1889, belonged to N. T. Ryals of Johnston County, North Carolina. It showed that Ryals had successfully passed the examination to teach in Johnston County’s public schools. It listed his “true grade of scholarship” in Spelling, Defining, [...]
Source: Greenville Area Preservation Association Records, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #605 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: Today’s staff pick consists of two views of The Imperial Tobacco Processing Plant in Greenville, North Carolina, from the Greenville Area Preservation Association (GAPA) Records, #605. These two images originated from the North Carolina State Archives. Many of the [...]
Source: Tobacco & Americans, Special Ref TS 2235 U5 H4 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: This image shows the manufacturing of plug tobacco at a Winston, North Carolina tobacco plant. The description under the photo states that “Winston, North Carolina, was “storm center of the plug industry,” stubbornly stuck to flat plug made of Bright [...]
Source: William E. Elmore Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #39 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: The image below is possibly of Kinchen Wiley Cobb of Greenville, N.C. According to a sketch written by his son Charles D. Cobb, Sr., in the Chronicles of Pitt County North Carolina (1982), Kinchen Cobb became Supervisor of the Greenville [...]
Source: Daily Reflector Negative Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #741 Staff Person: Coleen Allen Description: The images below are of tobacco being harvested in the 1950s. The inscription shown on these photos is August 20, 1954. These pictures are after tobacco has been pulled from the stalks (primed) in the fields. From the tobacco trucks [...]