Tobacco Industry
Title
Tobacco Industry
Description
The Tobacco Industry has a long and storied history in the U.S. For many years Tobacco was Kentucky's top cash crop. Follow it's rise and fall through Kentucky's newspapers.
Publisher
Source
Tobacco field (displayed above) from ExploreUK's Glass Plate Negative Collection.
Contributor
Kopana Terry, University of Kentucky Curator of Newspapers & Oral History Archivist
Relation
Discover more about early Kentucky burley farms and farmers in the Tebbs/Prewitt Family Papers in ExploreUK
See more tobacco, field, barn, and warehouse images from Karl Reitz Kentucky Images in ExploreUK
Hear more about production of Burley tobacco in Kentucky in Family Farms of Kentucky: Burley Tobacco Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History
Subject
Tobacco and Health Research Program (University of Kentucky)
Coverage
Kentucky and the United States
Format
microfilm-to-digital and print-ready PDF
Rights
Newspapers in KDNP are made freely available to scholars, researchers, genealogists, and the general public courtesy of the individual newspaper publishers and the University of Kentucky Libraries.
Language
English
Objectives
Contact us if you have issues of any newspapers presented here.
Collection
Citation
“Tobacco Industry,” Kentucky Digital Newspaper Program Exhibits, accessed March 25, 2023, https://kdnpx.omeka.net/items/show/16.