John S. Campbell Papers
MC 00298
Special Collections Research Center
40.0 Linear feet
1936 - 2000
The John Campbell Papers document the life and research of John S. Campbell, a British native who devoted his life's work to tropical agriculture and tobacco. The collection features his research, experiments, and writings about tropical agriculture done in the early part of his career, as well as later work conducted as a tobacco executive in North Carolina. Campbell also taught agriculture courses at North Carolina State University. The collection also features a large number of reprints and articles in the areas of tropical agriculture and tobacco.
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78 archival boxes
Campbell, John S., 1923-2000
Restrictions to Access
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Acquisitions Information
Gift of Marjorie Campbell, 2001 (Accesssion no. 2001-0005).
Preferred Citation
[Identification of Item], The John S. Campbell Papers, MC 298, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Copyright Notice
North Carolina State University copyright to this collection. Individuals obtaining materials from the NCSU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center are responsible for using the works in conformance with United States copyright law as well as any donor restrictions accompanying the materials.
Biographical Note
John S. Campbell was born in London, England, on April 4, 1923. He attended Reading and Cambridge Universities and completed graduate studies at Trinidad's Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture in the West Indies and at Harvard University. He died on September 12, 2000.
Campbell's work carried him around the world. After serving in the British Royal Navy from 1943-1946, he worked as an agricultural officer in the Department of Agriculture in Nigeria from 1948-1950. He then crossed the Atlantic to become senior lecturer at the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture in Trinidad in 1950, where he designed and supervised an agronomic research unit until 1961. Before leaving Trinidad, Campbell served as a land development officer at Tate and Lyle Sugar Corporation from 1961-1963, where he arranged for the cultivation of 5,000 acres of sugar cane and developed alternative commercial food crops to sugar cane. Campbell moved to Wilson, North Carolina, in 1963 to serve as vice president of the Imperial Tobacco Company. During his tenure at the company, Campbell supervised research and worked to expand the selection of tobacco varieties and improve cultivation methods. He retired in 1980 but continued his research, serving as a consultant to the United Nations and the World Bank on the international tobacco market.
Campbell also worked as an educator and volunteer in various locations. He served as an adjunct professor of crop science at NC State from 1974-1980, where he taught courses on the production of tropical food crops. His volunteer activities included serving as chairman of the Tobacco Quality Committee of the Tobacco Association (1967-1989), Director of the North Carolina Tobacco Foundation (1975-1980, 1982-1986, 1987-1991), and as chairman or member of numerous organizations in Wilson. Campbell also published widely, with more than sixty articles to his credit. His reports, however, were not limited to professional journals, as he frequently contributed to the popular press, radio, and television.
Scope and Content Note
The Campbell collection includes research, writings, and other materials in the areas of John S. Campbell's two main interests: tropical agriculture and tobacco. Little material about Campbell's education has been preserved, although some material on his courses at the Harvard Business School are in the collection in the Education series. The Correspondence series includes letters from throughout his career that document his associations with other researchers and educators. In Writings, many articles on the tropical crops Campbell studied while working in Trinidad are included. After becoming a tobacco company executive, Campbell focused his writings on topics of interest in that field. Beginning in 1979, Campbell sent quarterly reports to his employers in England, detailing the legal, financial, and development status of tobacco and tobacco products in the United States.
Along with Campbell's writings is evidence of his meticulous research, including notes, his self-styled bibliography forms, and his notecards. These materials are collected in the Research series. Included in this series are the charts and notes Campbell kept related to his experimental research on tropical crops. As an educator, both in Trinidad and the United States, Campbell drew upon his research and notes to create lesson plans. These can be found in the Teaching series.
The Organizations series includes conference materials, publications, and other information related to the professional organizations to which Campbell belonged. The majority of these organizations focused on tobacco, although he also belonged to some horticultural and agricultural groups, especially during the early part of his career.
Organization of Collection
The collection is organized into seven major series. The
[Education](ref11) series consists of a single folder, arranged chronologically.
[Correspondence](ref15) is also arranged chronologically, with undated materials filed at the beginning of the series. The
[Writings](ref84) are divided into two major subseries, Tropical Agriculture and Tobacco. The Tropical Agriculture materials were placed at the beginning of the series, because Campbell's career began in this area. Within these two series, subjects are arranged alphabetically.
[Research](ref205) is divided into four major subseries: Tropical Agriculture, Tobacco, Bibliography, and Notecards. These are all arranged alphabetically by subject. The
[Teaching](ref386) series, like the series before it, is divided into Tropical Agriculture and Tobacco subseries, with subjects within each subseries arranged alphabetically. The Teaching series also includes experiments conducted by Campbell's students, arranged alphabetically by topic. The
[Organizations](ref449) series, is split between Tropical Agriculture and Tobacco and arranged alphabetically by the name of the group. The Reprints and Publications series has yet to be arranged.
Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture (Trinidad and Tobago).
Imperial Tobacco Company.
Nigeria. Dept. of Agricultural Sciences.
North Carolina State University--Faculty.
North Carolina Tobacco Foundation.
Tobacco Association of United States. Tobacco Quality Committee.
Tobacco--Research
Tropical agriculture
Education
0.025 Linear feet
1972 - 1999
0.05 archival boxes
Scope and Contents note
The Education series includes information about Campbell's education at the Harvard Business School, as well as class reunion information .
Harvard Business School
1
1
1972 - 1999
Correspondence
1.475 Linear feet
1936 - 2000
2.95 archival boxes
Scope and Contents note
This series contains Campbell's professional correspondence. There are many requests for slides and research articles. In addition, there is extensive correspondence regarding tobacco and the growing number of lawsuits in the 1990s.
[no date]
1
2
1
3
1936
1
4
1946
1
5
1950
1
6
1951
1
7
1952
1
8
1953
1
9
1954
1
10
1955
1
11
1956
1
12
1957
1
13
1958
1
14
1959
1
15
1960
1
16
1961
1
17
January - June, 1962
1
18
July - December, 1962
1
19
January - March, 1963
1
20
April - June, 1963
1
21
July - December, 1963
1
22
1964
1
23
1965
1
24
1966
1
25
1967
1
26
1968
1
27
1969
1
28
1970
1
29
1971
1
30
1972
1
31
1973
1
32
1974
2
1
January - March, 1975
2
2
April - July, 1975
2
3
August - December, 1975
2
4
January - March, 1976
2
5
April - August, 1976
2
6
September - December, 1976
2
7
January - July, 1977
2
8
August - December, 1977
2
9
January - April, 1978
2
10
May - December, 1978
2
11
1979
2
12
1980
2
13
1981
2
14
1982
2
15
1983
2
16
1984
2
17
1985
3
1
1986
3
2
January - March, 1987
3
3
April - December, 1987
3
4
1988
3
5
1989
3
6
1990
3
7
1991
3
8
1992
3
9
January - March, 1993
3
10
April - December 1993
3
11
1994
3
12
January - March, 1995
3
13
April - December, 1995
3
14
1996
3
15
1997
3
16
1998
3
17
1999
3
18
2000
Writings
2.175 Linear feet
1940 - 2000
4.25 archival boxes
Scope and Contents note
The Writings series is comprised of two major subseries, Tropical Agriculture and Tobacco. The Tropical Agriculture subseries features articles and reports written by Campbell in the 1940s and 1950s. Most focus on a particular type of vegetable or aspect of tropical agriculture. The Tobacco subseries includes articles about cultivation and growth, as well as the quarterly reports Campbell sent to his British employer. These reports detail current advertising campaigns, research and development, and litigation regarding health and tobacco.
Tropical Agriculture
Annual Research Reports[no date]
4
1
1952 - 1961,
Essential Oils
4
2
1951
Fertilizer, [no date]
4
3
Gardening
General
4
4
1962
Anthurium[no date]
4
5
1959,
"Calling the Caribbean" Radio Show
4
6
1958 - 1960
Flowers[no date]
4
7
1954 - 1960,
Herbs, [no date]
4
8
Herbicides[no date]
4
9
1957,
Irrigation and Drainage, [no date]
4
10
Lawn Grasses, [no date]
4
11
Machinery
4
12
1947 -1950
Manure[no date]
4
13
1953,
Nematods, [no date]
4
14
Pesticides, [no date]
4
15
Population, [no date]
4
16
Pre-Planting, [no date]
4
17
Vegetables
General[no date]
4
18
1957,
General, [no date]
4
19
Beans[no date]
4
20
1949-1960,
Beets
4
21
1949
Cabbage, [no date]
4
22
Caribbean[no date]
4
23
1957,
Carrots
4
24
1949
Cauliflower
4
25
1944 - 1949
Celery
4
26
1949
Chinese Cabbage
4
27
1949
Climate
4
28
1951 - 1960
Commercial Food Production
4
29
1951 - 1962
Cucumber[no date]
4
30
1949,
Cultivation, [no date]
4
31
Dolichos Lablab
5
1
1941 - 1959
Eggplant
5
2
1961
Garlic, [no date]
5
3
Hydroponics, [no date]
5
4
Lettuce
5
5
1949 - 1963
Minor Gourds, [no date]
5
6
Minor Root Crops
5
7
1949
Minor Salad Crops[no date]
5
8
1949,
Mushrooms, [no date]
5
9
Nutrition, [no date]
5
10
Okra
5
11
1949 - 1963
Onions[no date]
5
12
1949 - 1951,
Pacific Area[no date]
5
13
1958,
Peas
5
14
1949
Peppers[no date]
5
15
1949,
Pumpkins and Squash
5
16
1949
Radishes, [no date]
5
17
Rice, [no date]
5
18
Rotation, [no date]
5
19
Seed Production, [no date]
5
20
Shallots, leeks and bunching onion
5
21
1949
Spinach and other minor greens
5
22
1949
Storage, [no date]
5
23
Tomatoes - General[no date]
5
24
1949 - 1961,
Tomatoes - Diseases, [no date]
5
25
Trinidad and Tobago
5
26
1961 - 1963
United Kingdom, [no date]
5
27
Varieties[no date]
5
28
1946 - 1955,
Watermelons and Muskmelons[no date]
5
29
1949,
White Lisbon Yam[no date]
5
30
1962 - 1964,
Tobacco
General
Economic Significance
5
31
1985
History - Developing World, [no date]
5
32
Cultivation
Environment
5
33
1995
Fertilizers
5
34
1983
Harvesting and Mechanization
5
35
1967
Insect Control
5
36
1958 - 1990
Ripening, [no date]
5
37
Varieties
General[no date]
6
1
1971,
Burley
6
2
1974
Flue-Cured[no date]
6
3
1989,
Health
General, [no date]
6
4
Reports
6
5
1979
6
6
1980
6
7
1981
6
8
1982
6
9
1983
6
10
1984
6
11
1985
6
12
1986
6
13
1987
6
14
1988
(Quarterly Reports 1 and 2)
6
15
1989
(Quarterly Reports 3 and 4)
6
16
1989
(Quarterly Reports 1 and 2)
7
1
1990
(Quarterly Reports 3 and 4)
7
2
1990
(Quarterly Reports 1 and 2)
7
3
1991
(Quarterly Reports 3 and 4)
7
4
1991
(Quarterly Reports 1 and 2)
7
5
1992
(Quarterly Reports 3 and 4)
7
6
1992
(Quarterly Reports 1 and 2)
7
7
1993
(Quarterly Reports 3 and 4)
7
8
1993
Marketing
General
7
9
1970 - 1987
[no date]
7
10
1991 - 2000,
Systems[no date]
7
11
1998 - 1999,
Quality
General
7
12
1993 - 1995
Climate
7
13
1977 - 1978
[no date]
7
14
1979 - 1980,
Leaf Standards[no date]
8
1
1940 - 1977,
Regions
Canada
8
2
1976 - 1989
Malawi, [no date]
8
3
Syria
8
4
1978
Third World
8
5
1986 - 1992
United States[no date]
8
6
1977 - 1981,
Research
2.875 Linear feet
1937 - 1999
5.75 archival boxes
Scope and Contents note
The Reseach Series is separated into four major subseries. The first two subseries, Tropical Agriculture and Tobacco, contain Campbell's many notes and collected reports on these subjects. The third subseries, Bibliography, features the detailed notes Campbell took for the sources used in his research. He designed his own form in which he recorded pertinent information. The last subseries, Notecards, contains notecards saved from Campbell's research. Throughout the Research series, items are arranged in alphabetical order by subject.
Notes
Tropical Agriculture
Africa, [no date]
8
7
Asia, [no date]
8
8
Fertilizer, [no date]
8
9
Gardening
Anthurium, [no date]
8
10
Flowers, [no date]
8
11
General, [no date]
8
12
General, [no date]
8
13
Herbs, [no date]
8
14
India, [no date]
8
15
Irrigation, [no date]
8
16
Mycology, [no date]
8
17
Nematods, [no date]
8
18
Queensland, [no date]
8
19
South America, [no date]
8
20
Vegetables
General, [no date]
8
21
Africa, [no date]
8
22
Asia, [no date]
9
1
Beans, [no date]
9
2
Cabbage, [no date]
9
3
Caribbean, [no date]
9
4
Carrots, [no date]
9
5
1954
Cauliflower, [no date]
9
6
1943 - 1954
Chinese Cabbage
9
7
1952
Cultivation, [no date]
9
8
Eggplant, [no date]
9
9
1949
Hydroponics, [no date]
9
10
Lettuce, [no date]
9
11
Mushrooms, [no date]
9
12
Nutrition, [no date]
9
13
Okra, [no date]
9
14
1962
Onions, [no date]
9
15
1955
Pacific Area, [no date]
9
16
Rice, [no date]
9
17
Rotation, [no date]
9
18
1963
Seed Storage, [no date]
9
19
Shallots, Leeks, and Bunching Onions, [no date]
9
20
Spinach and Other Minor Greens, [no date]
9
21
Tomatoes
Diseases, [no date]
9
22
General, [no date]
9
23
1948 - 1959
Varieties, [no date]
9
24
Trinidad and Tobago, [no date]
9
25
Varieties, [no date]
9
26
1958
Watercress, [no date]
9
27
World Hunger, [no date]
9
28
Tobacco
General, [no date]
9
29
Cultivation
Diseases
9
30
1990 - 1999
Harvesting and Mechanization, [no date]
9
31
1971
Insect Control, [no date]
9
32
Maelic Hydrazide, [no date]
9
33
Nitrosamines, [no date]
9
34
Ripening, [no date]
9
35
Varieties - General, [no date]
9
36
Health
General, [no date]
9
37
Cancer, [no date]
9
38
Litigation, [no date]
9
39
Quality
General, [no date]
9
40
Climate, [no date]
9
41
1955
Regions
Canada, [no date]
10
1
1976
Malawi, [no date]
10
2
1976
South America, [no date]
10
3
Third World, [no date]
10
4
United States, [no date]
10
5
Experiments
Annual Reports
10
6
1937 - 1954
Crop Record Sheets
10
7
1954
Field Experiments
10
8
1940 - 1957
[no date]
10
9
[no date]
10
10
Seed Germination
General
10
11
1954
Govier's
General, [no date]
10
12
1956
Dessicator
10
13
1954
Open Air
10
14
1954
Peppers
10
15
1959
Storage
10
16
1954
Storage
10
17
1956
Vegetables
General, [no date]
10
18
1944 - 1945
Singapore
10
19
1956
Singapore, [no date]
10
20
Tomatoes, [no date]
10
21
1953 - 1959
Bibliography
Asparagus
11
1
Beans
11
2
Beets
11
3
Breeding
11
4
Broccoli
11
5
Cabbage
11
6
Carrots
11
7
Cassava
11
8
Cauliflower
11
9
Celery
11
10
Chayote
11
11
Chemistry
11
12
Chinese Vegetables
11
13
Climate
11
14
Compost
11
15
Corn
11
16
Crops
11
17
Cucumbers
11
18
Cultivation
11
19
Culture
11
20
Dolichos Lablab
11
21
Economics
11
22
Eggplant
11
23
Fertilizers
11
24
Fibers
11
25
Fish
11
26
Flowers
11
27
Food Crops
11
28
Fungicides
11
29
General
11
30
Gourds
11
31
Greenhouses
11
32
Growing
11
33
Harvesting and Mechinization
11
34
Hawaii
11
35
Herbs
11
36
Herbicides and Pesticides
11
37
Hormones
11
38
Hydroponics
11
39
Indonesia
11
40
Irrigation
11
41
Leeks
11
42
Legumes
11
43
Lettuce
11
44
Machinery
12
1
Management
12
2
Manure
12
3
Marketing
12
4
Melons
12
5
Mushrooms
12
6
Nematodes
12
7
Nutrition
12
8
Okra
12
9
Onions and Garlic
12
10
Parsnip
12
11
Peas
12
12
Pepper
12
13
Pests and Disease
12
14
Plastics
12
15
Pre-planting
12
16
Processing
12
17
Production
12
18
Propagation
12
19
Pumpkins
12
20
Queensland
12
21
Radishes
12
22
Research
12
23
Rotation
12
24
Salad Crops - Minor
12
25
Seasonal Effects
12
26
Seeds
12
27
Seed Production
12
28
Seed Storage
12
29
Shallots
12
30
Soil
12
31
Spinach
12
32
Storage
12
33
Tomatoes
12
34
Tomatoes - Diseases
12
35
Vegetables - Asia
12
36
Vegetables - Varieties
12
37
Watercress
12
38
Watermelons and Muskmelons
12
39
Notecards
13
1
Teaching
1.25 Linear feet
1945 - 1998
2.5 archival boxes
Scope and Contents note
The Teaching series includes Campbell's notes, lesson plans for the classes he taught, both in the tropics and in North Carolina. The series is broken into three subseries: Tropical Agriculture, topics of which Campbell taught mostly during the 1940s and 1950s; Tobacco, a topic that Campbell taught in North Carolina; and Experiments, all of which were conducted during Campbell's tenure in the Caribbean.
Tropical Agriculture
1946 - 1988
Avocado, [no date]
14
1
1959
Bananas
14
2
1952 - 1977
Cassava, [no date]
14
3
Citrus
14
4
1959 - 1988
Cocoa, [no date]
14
5
1960
Coconuts, [no date]
14
6
1960 - 1975
Coffee, [no date]
14
7
Corn
14
8
1958 - 1959
Cotton, [no date]
14
9
Cowpeas
14
10
1946 - 1963
Drugs, [no date]
14
11
Dyes and Tans, [no date]
14
12
Farm Management, [no date]
14
13
1974 - 1978
Farming Systems, [no date]
14
14
1971 - 1975
Fertilizer, [no date]
14
15
1954 - 1975
Fibre Crops, [no date]
14
16
Forestry, [no date]
14
17
Fruit Crops, [no date]
14
18
1950 - 1975
Grass, [no date]
14
19
1953 - 1957
Insecticides of Vegetable Origin, [no date]
15
1
1975
Jute, [no date]
15
2
Land Ownership, [no date]
15
3
1977
Livestock, [no date]
15
4
Mango, [no date]
15
5
Oil Crops - General, [no date]
15
6
1971
Oil Palm, [no date]
15
7
Papaya, [no date]
15
8
Peanuts, [no date]
15
9
1958
Pigeon Pea, [no date]
15
10
1947
Pineapple
15
11
1959
Potatoes, [no date]
15
12
1949 - 1977
Propagation, [no date]
15
13
1969
Pulse Crops, [no date]
15
14
Root Crops, [no date]
15
15
1960
Rubber, [no date]
15
16
1960
Sisal, [no date]
15
17
1958
Sorghum Millet, [no date]
15
18
1958 - 1959
Soybean, [no date]
15
19
1957 - 1959
Spices, [no date]
15
20
1975 - 1981
Sugar Cane
15
21
1955 - 1959
Sugar Cane, [no date]
15
22
Tea, [no date]
16
1
Yams
16
2
1959 - 1961
Tobacco
1984 - 1998
Brazil, [no date]
16
3
China
16
4
1994 - 1996
Color, [no date]
16
5
1984
India, [no date]
16
6
1998
Ivory Coast
16
7
1987
Manufacturing, [no date]
16
8
Primary Processing, [no date]
16
9
Experiments
1945 -57
Crop Record Sheets
16
10
1945 - 1947
16
11
1948 - 1949
16
12
1950 - 1951
Surveying, [no date]
16
13
1957
Surveying, [no date]
16
14
Vegetables - Climate, [no date]
16
15
Organizations
2.25 Linear feet
1950 - 2000
4.5 archival boxes
Scope and Contents note
Throughout his career, Campbell was a member of a variety of organizations, many of them relating to his professional interests. Within this series are minutes of meetings, conference bulletins, and newsletters for many of these organizations.
Tropical Agriculture
1950 - 1995
Agricultural Society of Trinidad and Tobago
16
16
1957 - 1962
American Society for Horticultural Science
16
17
1963
Associated Seed Growers (Asgrow)
16
18
1953 - 1958
Florida Agricultural Extension
16
19
1950 - 1952
16
20
1954 - 1955
16
21
1956 - 1960
17
1
1961 - 1964
17
2
1966 - 1968
Horticultural Club of Trinidad and Tobago
17
3
1955 - 1957
17
4
1958 - 1961
17
5
1962 - 1974, [no date]
North Carolina Co-Operative Extension
17
6
1985 - 1995
Tobacco
1972 - 2000
American Tobacco Grower
17
7
1995
American Leaf Organization
17
8
1976 - 1979
Co-operation Centre for Scientific Research Relative to Tobacco (CORESTA)
17
9
1976 - 1984
17
10
1988 - 1992
17
11
1993 - 2000
Council for Tobacco Research
17
12
1985 - 1997
Flue-Cured Tobacco Cooperative Stabilization Corporation
17
13
1995 - 1996
17
14
1997 - 1998
17
15
1999 - 2000
International Tobacco Growers' Association, [no date]
18
1
1993 - 1999
National Tobacco Council
18
2
1997 - 2000
Ontario Flue Cured Tobacco Growers' Marketing Board
18
3
1977 - 1992
Pesticide Committee
18
4
1990 - 1991
18
5
1992 - 1994
18
6
1995 - 1996
18
7
1997 - 2000
Regional Tobacco Growth Regulator Committee
18
8
1992 - 1994
18
9
1995 - 1996
18
10
1997 - 1998
18
11
1999
18
12
2000, [no date]
Star Committee
19
1
1998 - 1999
Tobacco Associates
19
2
1995 - 1997
19
3
1998 - 2000
Tobacco Association of the United States
19
4
1974 - 1983
19
5
1984 - 1986
19
6
1987 - 1988
Tobacco Chemists Research Committee
19
7
1990 - 1997
Tobacco Growers of North Carolina, [no date]
19
8
1994 - 2000
Tobacco Institute
19
9
1976 - 1978
19
10
1997
[no date]
19
11
Tobacco Merchants Association
19
12
1994 - 1996
19
13
1997 - 1998
19
14
February - August, 1999
19
15
September - December, 1999
20
1
January, 2000
20
2
February, 2000
20
3
March, 2000
20
4
April, 2000
20
5
May, 2000
20
6
June, 2000
Tobacco Science Research Conference
20
7
1999 - 2000
Tobacco Workers Conference
20
8
1972 - 1981
20
9
1983 - 1991
20
10
1993
20
11
1995 - 1996