“NORTH CAROLINA TOBACCO-- The State grows a third of all the tobacco grown in America. It is on an even plane with the production of cotton in the State and accounts for the hundreds of warehouses and tobacco firms throughout the State. North Carolina tobacco also is ranked with the best in quality.”

Source: Image and caption from "North Carolina Tobacco," postcard NC 7 in Variety Vacation Land, Raleigh, N.C.: Department of Conservation and Development, [1939]. North Carolina Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. VCp917 N87c.