Inventory of the Leonard Rapport Papers, undated
Collection Number 4163
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Rapport, Leonard, 1913-
- Title
- Leonard Rapport Papers, undated.
- Call Number
- 4163
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- 50 items (0.5 linear feet).
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Administrative Information
- Additional Descriptive Resources
- A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the Leonard Rapport Papers, #4163, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Duke family.
- Durham (N.C.)--History.
- Federal Writers' Project.
- North Carolina--Biography.
- North Carolina--Social conditions.
- Reynolds family.
- Tobacco industry--North Carolina--History.
- Tobacco--North Carolina--History.
- Winston-Salem (N.C.)--History.
Collection Overview
Draft of an essay entitled "People of Tobacco," written by Rapport and others for the North Carolina Federal Writers' Project. Topics covered in the essay include market days, tobacco cultivation, the history of tobacco in North Carolina from the Colonial period to the 1900s, the development of Durham and Winston-Salem as tobacco towns and the influence of the Duke and Reynolds families, and the influence of technology. Also included in the collection are drafts of life history interviews, clippings, and publications about tobacco cultivation and manufacture.