Clark-Tripp Papers

1893-1918
Manuscript Collection #231
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Creator(s)
Clark family; Tripp family
Physical description
0.044 Cubic Feet, 26 items , including correspondence and warehouse tickets.
Preferred Citation
Clark-Tripp Papers (#231), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.
Repository
ECU Manuscript Collection
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Papers (1947-1954), consisting of correspondence, speeches, campaign literature, and miscellaneous.

Scope and arrangement

The Clark-Tripp Papers is a collection made up primarily of the warehouse tickets of W. P. Clark and J. J. Tripp of Greenville, North Carolina. Their receipts for 1893, 1894, and 1918 from a variety of tobacco warehouses in Greenville, N.C., demonstrate the increasing value of tobacco as a cash crop between the years 1893, 1894, and 1918.

Administrative information
Custodial History

June 30, 1978, 26 items; Papers (1893-1918) of Greenville, N.C. tobacconists, including correspondence and warehouse tickets. Gift of Mrs. Jarvis Tripp, Sr., Greenville, N.C.

June 22, 1973, (unprocessed addition 1), ca. 700 items.; papers (1947-1954), consisting of correspondence, speeches, campaign literature, and miscellaneous. Donor: Mrs. Hubert E. Olive.

Source of acquisition

Gift of Mrs. Jarvis Tripp, Sr.

Gift of Mrs. Hubert E. Olive

Processing information

Processed by M. Quintanilla, October 1986

Encoded by Apex Data Services

Copyright notice

Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.

Key terms
Personal Names
Clark, W. P.
Tripp, J. J.
Topical
Tobacco industry--North Carolina--Greenville
Tobacco--Prices--North Carolina--Greenville