Rush D. Touton Tobacco Collection
Preliminary arrangement and description by Special Collections staff; latest revision by Kylie Dodd
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Davidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
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Guide to the Rush D. Touton Tobacco Collection, ca. 1924-1981 [bulk dates 1930-1960]
Collection number: Bernath Mss 112
Department of Special Collections
Davidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
- Processed by:
- Special Collections staff; K. Dodd
- Date Completed:
- Dec. 6, 2012
- Latest revision:
- Jan. 22, 2013
- Encoded by:
- A. Demeter
© 2013 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Rush D. Touton Tobacco Collection
Dates: ca. 1924-1981
Bulk Dates: 1930-1960
Collection number: Bernath Mss 112
Collection Size:
1.45 linear feet
(1 carton and 1 flat oversize box).
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections
Abstract: Includes material on tobacco industry in Puerto Rico and Sumatra; many photographs, mainly black and white and in U.S.
Physical location: Del Norte (box 1); Del Norte Oversize (box 2).
Languages:
English, Dutch
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Preferred Citation
Rush D. Touton Tobacco Collection. Bernath Mss 112. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Acquisition Information
Purchase, 2004.
Scope and Content of Collection
From dealer description:
"Archive of letters, photographs, printed ephemera, typescripts, and published articles, 1924-1981, documenting the long career
of tobacco industry engineer and executive Rush D. Touton of the Philadelphia-based Wurton Machine Company and (later) the
Solaranza Company. Early in his career Touton designed and patented successful machines and special production processes for
tobacco casing and curing. In concert with Harry P. Wurman, Executive Vice-President of the Philadelphia-based Bayuk Cigar
Company (maker of the famous "Phillies" cigar), Touton established the Wurton Machine Co. Working out of Bayuk's cigar factory,
the Wurton Company manufactured and leased improved tobacco stringing machines and provided technical assistance to tobacco
growers, especially in Connecticut and Sumatra. In turn, these growers sold their tobacco to the Bayuk Company. In 1961 Touton
took complete control of the Wurton Company, renamed it the Solaranza Company, and trained its expertise on Puerto Rican tobacco
production, still for the benefit of the Bayuk Company, with which Touton worked simultaneously as technical advisor and public
spokesman for over 50 years.
"Rush Touton's records of his tobacco industry career comprise: over 125 photographs, [...] over 340 manuscript, typed, and
printed items, [...] typescripts, off-prints, and advertisements for Touton's professional articles, speeches, and public
announcements regarding tobacco machinery, and typed and printed technical reports, diagrams, instructions and leases for
the same; and related paper and metal tobacco ephemera (e.g., booklets, metal nameplates for machinery produced by Touton's
businesses)."
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Touton, Rush D.
Wurton Machine Company.
Bayuk Cigar Company.
Solaranza Company.
Tobacco industry--Sumatra.
Tobacco industry--Puerto Rico.
Box 1: 1
Bayuk Cigars Inc. Annual Reports,
1956-1958
Box 1: 1
Correspondence between Touton and others,
1954
Box 1: 1
Newspaper clippings, press releases
Box 1: 1
Board of Directors meetings,
1973
Box 1: 2
Contractual Agreements: Bayuk, Wurton, Solaranza, and Rotschild,
May 17, 1934-Mar. 11, 1974
Box 1: 3
Cigar history and folklore - Postcards, metal machinery serial number plates, and various informational booklets relating
to cigars and tobacco
Cigar Manufacturers' Association (CMA) Research Seminars
Box 1: 4
Abstracts of talks,
1956-1957
Box 1: 4
Attendance list,
Oct. 1961
Box 1: 4
Correspondence,
1958-1960
Box 1: 5
Seminar programs, some with abstracts,
1950-1963
Box 1: 5-6
Seminar proceedings,
1951-1953
Box 1: 7
International Scientific Tobacco-Congress (Brussels) - Photographs from the meeting,
June 1958
Box 1: 8
Professional Articles - Articles written by Rush D. Touton; correspondence between Touton and various editors regarding his
articles
Box 1: 9
Professional Presentations - Correspondence between Touton and various organizations regarding speaking engagements and presentations,
and newspaper clipping relating to Touton's talks,
1931-1972
Box 1: 9
The Quaker City Farmers directory,
Oct. 1953
Box 1: 10
Bylaws, Certificate of Incorporation of Solaranza Inc.
Box 1: 10
Banking documents, invoices and receipts, stock documents,
1974-1976
Box 1: 10
Minutes - Board of Directors meeting, Feb. 7, 1974; Shareholder meetings, 1980
Box 1: 10
Proof of publication of notice in
Main Line Times
Box 1: 11
Correspondence between Touton and others,
1937-1946
Box 1: 11
First sale of Sumatra Tobacco booklet,
1941
Box 1: 11
Newspaper clippings, notes about different plantations
Box 1: 12
Photographs - tobacco farm
Box 1: 12
Receipt book of D.R. Touton,
1937
Box 1: 12
Registration booklet for Sumatra Tobacco,
1936
Box 1: 12
Statistical graph of rainfall for the company Kwala Bingei (in Dutch),
1933-1936
Box 1: 12
Statistical overview of Sumatra and Java Tobacco (in Dutch),
Jan. 1937
Box 1: 13
Correspondence,
1940-1961
Box 1: 13
Description and Operation Instructions booklet
Box 1: 13
Reports and articles,
ca. 1931
Wurton Tobacco Stringing Machines
Box 1: 14
Correspondence between Touton and others
Box 1: 14
Keating, William E. - Insurance claim and lease agreement documents,
1974-1976
Box 1: 14
Documents, newspaper clippings, photographs on the stringing machines,
1949-1959,
1976
Box 1: 14
Patent purchase documents,
1956
Box 1: 15
Miscellaneous - Calling cards, Rush D. Touton
Box 2
The Tobacco Leaf, vol. 66, no. 3414:
Jul. 26, 1930
Box 2
United States Tobacco Journal, vol. 123 no. 2:
Jan. 12, 1935
Box 2
Bayuk Cigars, Inc. building, Philadelphia, PA - Includes invoices for the production of the photographs by S.C. Horn & Co.,
1929
Box 2
Panorama - 10 x 72" panoramic photo of a tobacco plantation in Cayey, Puerto Rico,
Nov. 6, 1924
Box 2
R.D. Touton and other tobacco executives
Box 2
Second International Scientific Tobacco-Congress,
June 1958
Box 2
Tobacco farms, machinery, and laborers
Box 2
Pocket embossing seal - with instruction sheet and black