Finding Aid to the Tobacco Industry Collection

JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
TOBACCO INDUSTRY COLLECTION
The collection includes miscellaneous clippings and articles concerning the tobacco
industry in Lynchburg, Virginia. Also included are a day book listing purchases made by
an unknown tobacco broker (possibly WINFREE), and artifacts from the Spring
Warehouse in Lynchburg.
BOX 1

[BOX] 2

1-1 "Men of the Tobacco Trade in Lynchburg"
1-2 WPA Historical Inventory - Manufacture of tobacco and tobacco
warehouses
1-3 "Lynchburg Tobacco Goes to Japan"
1-4 Friend's Warehouse (News article)
1-5 Spring Warehouse and other warehouses
1-6 Miscellaneous clippings and articles
1-7 Miscellaneous manuscripts:
Weight receipt - Liberty Warehouse (S. P. HALSEY) (1867)
Tobacco purchase - Wm. DANIEL, Jr., from C. S. BLISS (1865)
Letter: J. T. MORTON to Maj. S. P. HALSEY (1866)
Letter: L. DeWITT to Mrs. James M. BOOKER, Jr. (1883)
Letter: P. B. Konrad Knake to Al (1955)
1-8 Miscellaneous pamphlets
1-9 Miscellaneous illustrations:
Copy of plate in William Tatham's Culture of Tobacco
"Night Scene in Lynchburg," Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
(1883)
"Tobacco Mart in Lynchburg," Harper's Weekly (1879)
1-10 Artifacts from the Spring Warehouse (Pegs, Nails)
Day Book [WINFREE?] (1890)

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