Secondary Sources
Articles
Zeide, Anna. “‘The Dignity of Invention’: Race, Intellectual Property, and Peanut Agriculture, 1900–1920.” Agricultural History 99, no. 2 (2025): 162–86.
Pollard, Marcus R. “The Suffolk Peanut Company.” National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. Virginia Department of Historic Resources, May 25, 2016.
Medford, Edna Greene. “Land and Labor: The Quest for Black Economic Independence on Virginia’s Lower Peninsula, 1865–1880.” History Department Faculty Publications 52 (1992).
Books
Abbas, Z., A. Kumar, and A. Kumar. Peanut Agriculture and Production Technology: Integrated Nutrient Management. 1st ed. Apple Academic Press, 2018.
Smith, Andrew F. Peanuts: The Illustrious History of the Goober Pea. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.
Primary Sources
Photographs
Unknown. Peanut Farmers, Suffolk, Virginia. Late 19th to early 20th century. Photographic print. Virginia Museum of History & Culture, Richmond, VA.
Newspaper Articles
Unknown. “Report on Agricultural Conditions and Peanut Crop.” The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA), September 17, 1915. Accessed via Virginia Chronicle.
Unknown. “Local and Regional News Summary.” The Daily News, January 25, 1907.
Legal Documents
Hicks, Benjamin. Machine for Stemming and Cleaning Peanuts or Green Peas. U.S. Patent 688,519. Filed November 1, 1900. Issued December 10, 1901.
Pritchard, Circuit Judge. Virginia-Carolina Peanut Picker Co., Inc. v. Benthall Machine Co., Inc.
154 C.C.A. 89; 241 F. 89 (4th Cir. 1916).
Documentaries
Drewry, Amy, dir. The Virginia Peanut Story. Rock Eagle Productions, 2019. 56 min.