Tri-State Tobacco Growers Association Records, 1921-1927.

Summary

Creator:
Tri-State Tobacco Growers Association.
Abstract:

The Tri-State Tobacco Growers Association was a cooperative association of tobacco growers in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.

The collection includes administrative correspondence, reports received, statistics, mimeographed releases, articles and speeches, and miscellaneous other records of the secretary and other officers of the Tri-State Tobacco Growers Association. Also included are papers of Sydney D. Frissell, sometime officer of the association and University of North Carolina graduate student in rural social economics, in connection with his study of cooperative marketing.

Extent:
3,000 items (3.0 linear feet)
Language:
Materials in English
Library Catalog Link:
View UNC library catalog record for this item

Background

Biographical / historical:

The Tri-State Tobacco Growers Association was a cooperative association of tobacco growers in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Officers of the association included M. O. Wilson, of Raleigh, N.C.; L. E. Rogers; E. G. Moss; and Sydney D. Frissell.

Sydney D. Frissell was for a time the association's publicity director. While a graduate student in rural social economics at the University of North Carolina, Frissell conducted a study on cooperative marketing.

Scope and content:

The collection includes administrative correspondence, reports received, statistics, mimeographed releases, articles and speeches, and miscellaneous other records of the secretary and other officers of the Tri-State Tobacco Growers Association. Also included are papers of Sydney D. Frissell in connection with his study of cooperative marketing.

Acquisition information:

Transferred from the University of North Carolina Library, October 1957.

Processing information:

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, January 2009

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

Sensitive materials statement:

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Access and use

Restrictions to access:

No restrictions. Open for research.

Restrictions to use:

No usage restrictions.

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], in the Tri-State Tobacco Growers Association Records, #3322, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Location of this collection:
Louis Round Wilson Library
200 South Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27515
Contact:
(919) 962-3765
wilsonlibrary@unc.edu