Imperial Tobacco Company Factory Employees

Published Jun 25, 2010 by

ECU Contributor

Filed under:

East Carolina Manuscript Collection
Imported
negatives (photographic)
newspapers

Source: Daily Reflector Negative Collection #741.11.a.7

Staff Person: Martha Elmore

Description: In this August 1956 image taken for the Greenville, N.C., Daily Reflector newspaper, African American women are sorting tobacco at the Imperial Tobacco Company factory. Many other images related to tobacco production from the field, to the barns, to the warehouse, and finally to the factories can be found in the Daily Reflector Negative Collection.