Rain gauge
- Title
- Rain gauge
- Description
- Weather is an important factor in growing any kind of crop, but especially tobacco. Too much or too little water could ruin a tobacco farmer’s entire crop, and by doing so, ruin an entire season’s pay. Keeping track of how much it rained was important for a tobacco farmer, and these small gauges helped to remind him of that. Tobacco warehouses often gave out rain gauges like the one pictured to farmers, not only to aid in the growing process, but as a way of promoting the name of a warehouse. This warehouse was distributed by Works Tobacco Warehouses and Works Tobacco Seed located at 1441 S. Church Street, Rocky Mount, N.C. Date approximated. The accompanying video describes the item and its distribution.
- Date
- 1930-1970
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- equipment
- Extent
- Local Identifier
- Tobacco Farm Life Museum
- Subject(s)
- Advertising--Tobacco--North Carolina--Rocky Mount
- Rain gauges--North Carolina--Rocky Mount
- Tobacco industry--North Carolina--Rocky Mount
- Spatial
- Location of Original
- Tobacco Farm Life Museum
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Agriculture
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Manufacturing and Business
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North Carolina History and Fiction Collection
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Tobacco
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