Leonard Rapport Papers, . undated

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Leonard Rapport Papers, . undated

Leonard Rapport was involved in the writing of an essay entitled written for the North Carolina Federal Writers' Project. People of Tobacco, The collection includes drafts and photocopies of the essay chapters. 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, N.C., and Winston-Salem, N.C., as tobacco towns and the influence of the Duke family and Reynolds family, and the influence of technology. Also included in the collection are drafts of life history interviews, clippings, and publications about tobacco cultivation and manufacture.

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Rapport, Leonard, 1913-

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Leonard Rapport (1913-2008) of Durham, N.C., was an author and archivist who was involved in the North Carolina Federal Writers' Project, 1938-1941. From the guide to the Leonard Rapport Papers, ., undated, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...