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Posted By: J Hull

I suspect Factory 33 was the old Blackwell factory in downtown Durham, most famous for producing the Bull Durham brand of tobacco. The factory mostly produced (maybe only produced) granulated smoking tobacco products. There are a TON of great photographs of the factory building and its warehouses and annexes out in various places on the Internet.

These are ATC's circa 1909 brands of granulated smoking tobacco that were produced in Durham. The factory number on any of these packages should be able to confirm whether No. 33 was the Blackwell factory. I believe Duke's Mixture was the most successful of any of these and thus has the most surviving packages.


Bob White
Bristol Club
Canvas Back
Cherry
Drum Granulated
Duke's Mixture
Eureka
Geranium Rose
Greenback
May Queen
Recruit
Seal Skin
Uncle Ned (also produced in St. Louis)
Victory Granulated