| Scope and content |
This collection consists of the business records of the tobacco warehouse firm of Cozart, Eagles, and Carr. The collection includes six ledgers documenting daily cash transactions between the warehouse and buyers. Some of the ledgers also provide annual totals and names of customers. There is also one folder in the collection containing fifteen various items, and loose records which include cash receipts, gift tax receipts, correspondence, stock liability statements and audit reports of the Portsmouth Fisheries Company and the Brunswick Navigation Company. |
| Access restriction | No Restrictions |
| Cite as |
Cozart, Eagles, and Carr Company Records (#544), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. |
| Terms of use | Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner- Gift of The Tobacco Museum of North Carolina. |
| Biographical note | The tobacco warehouse firm of Cozart, Eagles, and Carr operated the Centre Brick Warehouse on South Goldsboro St. in Wilson, N.C., which opened in 1893. One known founder was Ula Hubert Cozart. |
