Papers, 1883-1946.

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Papers, 1883-1946.

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Chiefly correspondence and other materials collected by Tilley concerning servicemen in World War II, the Bonsack family of Virginia, and tobacco cultivation and manufacturing in Virginia. The large group of letters from U.S. servicemen reveals attitudes about military service, U.S. participation in World War II, and about Duke University, where many of them had been students. Another group of letters is from the John E. Bonsack family, and concerns the Bonsack family genealogy, particularly James E. Bonsack, inventor of cigarette rolling machine, and Jacob Bonsack, grandfather of John E. Bonsack, who owned a woolen mill at Good Intent, Va. Further materials, chiefly photostats of reports from Richmond, Va., printed in the New York Journal of Commerce, concern the production and marketing of tobacco in Virginia and methods of handling leaf tobacco.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Bonsack, James Albert, 1859-1924

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Tilley, Nannie M. (Nannie May), 1898-1988

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Historian; curator of Manuscripts Dept., Duke University. From the description of Papers, 1883-1946. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 33205055 ...

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