Comments on: Artifact of the Month: Tobacco pouch http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2013/01/15/artifact-of-the-month-tobacco-pouch/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=artifact-of-the-month-tobacco-pouch Exploring the History, Literature, and Culture of the Tar Heel State Tue, 21 May 2013 18:24:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Carole A. McElrath http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2013/01/15/artifact-of-the-month-tobacco-pouch/comment-page-1/#comment-1009146 Carole A. McElrath Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:33:40 +0000 http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/?p=20838#comment-1009146 In going through my husband’s collection of pipes – and all things related, I came across a hand-strung North Carolina tobacco pouch. You can never imagine how excited I was, as a historian, to find information on your website about the pouch as well as the 1939 survey of the cottage industry that was such an essential income for so many families at that time.

]]> By: Robert Delano http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2013/01/15/artifact-of-the-month-tobacco-pouch/comment-page-1/#comment-967588 Robert Delano Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:47:31 +0000 http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/?p=20838#comment-967588 I recently found a “Lincoln” cigarette card in some old artifacts belonging to our grandparents. It is in very good shape. Is there somebody that could tell me any info about it and what might be it’s value?

Thanks

]]> By: John Blythe http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2013/01/15/artifact-of-the-month-tobacco-pouch/comment-page-1/#comment-965273 John Blythe Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:27:05 +0000 http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/?p=20838#comment-965273 You can read the full report on tobacco stringing–the one that served as the basis for the exhibit Emily mentions above–at this address:
http://archive.org/stream/tobaccobagstring00stut#page/n0/mode/2up

It was recently scanned and made available online.

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