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Pitt County Tobacco Digital History Exhibit

http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/exhibits/tobacco/index.html

Provider: East Carolina University Joyner Library

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Appropriate grades
K–12
Subjects
social studies (North Carolina)
Provider
East Carolina University Joyner Library

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Tobacco has been an important crop to North Carolina since colonial days. This exhibit provides primary and secondary sources dating from 1889 to 1922 show how tobacco growing, marketing, and processing developed in Pitt County, North Carolina. These documents include newspaper articles and advertisements, photographs, and a variety of manuscripts. By using the 1900 census database, aggregate census data, labor reports, entries from business directories, and a promotional pamphlet published in 1914, students can better understand local socio-economic trends of that period.

Also see the website Celebrate Tobacco Barns from the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources Office of Archives and History.