Manuscripts Department
Library of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION
#4355
LEON OETTINGER PAPERS
Inventory
Abstract: Leon Oettinger, tobacco warehouse owner of
Douglas, Ga., in the 1940s, and his wife, Amy
Montgomery Oettinger, who wrote about warehousing and
selling tobacco.
Six photographs relating to the tobacco industry
in Douglas, Ga., including several of the warehouse
owned by Leon Oettinger and of unidentified
townspeople. Also included is a carbon copy of a
nine-page typed article, written in 1941 by Amy
Montgomery Oettinger, about the selling of the 1940
tobacco crop.
Online Catalog Terms:
Cities and towns--Georgia--Pictorial works.
Douglas (Ga.)--Pictorial works.
Oettinger, Amy Montgomery.
Oettinger, Leon.
Tobacco industry--Georgia--History--20th century.
Tobacco industry--Georgia--Photographs.
Tobacco--Storage--Photographs.
Size: About 7 items.
Provenance: Gift of Marion Oettinger, cousin of Leon and Amy
Montgomery Oettinger's son, in May 1983 (Acc.
83067).
Access: No restrictions.
Processing Note: Items separated: P-4355/1-6.
Copyright: Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or
their descendants, as stipulated by United States
copyright law.