American Tobacco Company

Scope and Contents The Golden Belt Manufacturing Company ledger details the accounting of the first years of the company, while it was still a part of the Bull Durham Tobacco factory. According to the first page of the ledger, it is "An itemized statement of the Resources and Liabilities of the Golden Belt Manufacturing Company organized this day by authority of letters issued and Charter granted by the Clerk of the Superior Court of Durham County, NC," dated August 16, 1887. The final page of the ledger is...