Tobacco Resources

Primary Sources in Special Collections & Archives

Selected Secondary Resources

  • Bain, John. Tobacco in Song and Story. New York, Boston : H. M. Caldwell, 1896. (GT3020 B32)
  • Blair, W. A. (William Allen). Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in 1901. : The Queen City of the Great Piedmont Section. Trade Centre, Tobacco Centre, Manufacturing Centre, Railroad Centre, Educational Centre. Winston-Salem, N.C. : publisher not identified, 1901. (E742 B4257 vol. 2 no. 25)
  • Carver, Jonathan. A Treatise on the Culture of the Tobacco Plant: With the Manner in which it is usually Cured. Adapted to Northern Climates, and Designed for the Use of the Landholders of Great-Britain. To which are prefixed, two plates of the plant and its flowers. London : The Author, Sold by J. Johnson, 1779. (SB273 C34)
  • Everard, Giles and Rowland, John. Panacea; or, The Universal Medicine: Being a Discovery of the Wonderfull Vertues of Tobacco Taken in a Pipe, with its Operation and Use both in Physic and Chyrurgery. London : Printed for Simon Miller, 1659. (RA1242 T6 E84 1659)
  • Meller, Henry James. Nicotiana : or, The smoker’s and Snuff-taker’s Companion: Containing the History of Tobacco: culture–medical qualities and the laws relative to its importation and manufacture : with an essay in its defence ; the whole … interspersed with original poetry and anecdotes. London : Effingham Wilson, 1833. (SB273 M5 1833)
  • R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Golden leaves: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and the art of advertising. Winston-Salem, N.C.: 1986. (HD9139 R4 R4 1986x)
  • R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Proof of the great discovery is in the smoking of refined. Winston-Salem, N.C.: 1907? (HF6161 T6 R57)
  • Reynolds, Patrick and Shachtman, Tom. The Gilded Leaf: Triumph, Tragedy, and Tobacco: Three Generations of the R.J. Reynolds Family and Fortune. Boston : Little, Brow, 1989. (HD9139 R44 R47 1989)
  • Reynolds, Thomas. The substance of a lecture on the pernicious properties & injurious effects of tobacco: delivered in Cheltenham, under the presidency of the Rev. A.M. Brown, L.L.D., and subsequently in Gloucester, under the presidency of Samuel Bowly, Esq. London : W. Tweedie, 337 Strand and N.H. Cotes, 139 Cheapside, 1853. (HV5733 R49 1853)
  • Robert, Joseph C. The Tobacco Kingdom: Plantation, Market, and Factory in Virginia and North Carolina, 1800-1860. Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1938. (SB273 R6 1933)
  • A Treatise upon the Herb Tobacco: Pointing out its Deleterious Pernicious Quality, and its fatal effects upon the human constitution, by the great variety of disorders it occasions; not only affecting three of the five senses, to a great degree, but impairing the faculties of the mind, and even frequently causing premature death. London : Printed for Charles Stalker, Stationers-Court, Ludgate street, 1789. (QV137 T784 1789)
  • Venner, Tobias. A briefe and accurate treatise of tobacco: in which the immoderate, irregular & unseasonable use thereof is reprehended, and the true nature and best manner of using it, perspicuously demonstrated. Book Club of California, 1931. (RA1242 T6 V45 1931)
  • Werner, Carl Avery. A textbook on tobacco: an exhaustive technical treatise on the culture, the manufacture and the merchandising of tobacco and tobacco products. New York : The Tobacco Leaf Publishing Company, 1914. (HD9130.5 W5 1914)
  • Werner, Carl Avery. Tobaccoland: a book about tobacco; its history, legends, literature, cultivation, social and hygienic influences, commercial development, industrial processes and governmental regulation. New York : The Tobacco Leaf Publishing Company, 1922. (HD9120.5 W5 1922)