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Preferred Citation:

James Thomas, Jr. Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information:

Purchase

Biographical Information:

James Thomas, Jr. was a tobacco merchant during the Civil War era based out of Richmond, VA.

Scope and Contents

Papers, 1851-1867, of James Thomas, Jr., a tobacco dealer in Richmond, Va. mainly concerned with the tobacco trade and prices in the Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore markets. Consists of correspondence and financial papers.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Correspondence
• Financial records
• Merchants--Virginia--History--19th century
• Receipts (financial records)
• Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
• Richmond (Va.)--History
• Tobacco--Virginia--History--19th century
• United States--Antebellum South--History
• United States--Economic history
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865