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Blackwell's Durham Telegraph : cork soap promotion
Promotional material published by Blackwell's Durham Telegraph, the advertising division of Blackwell's Durham Co-operative Tobacco Company, offering free soap to those businesses which purchased 25-pound cases of Blackwell's Genuine Bull Durham Tobacco.
Blackwell's Durham Telegraph dime novel promotion : coupon from envelope entitled, valuable
Promotional material sent by Blackwell's Durham Telegraph, the advertising arm of Blackwell's Genuine Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco. Blackwell's Durham Telegraph sent coupons to consumer's who purchased tobacco products. Customers exchanged these coupons for promotional merchandise.
Blackwell's Durham Telegraph dime novel promotion : coupon from Blackwell's Durham Tobacco Co.,
Blackwell's Durham Telegraph, the advertising arm of Blackwell's Genuine Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco, sent promotional coupons with illustrations of : paper dolls, silver scarf pins, silver-plated tableware, razors, scissors, or pocketwatches. The items are sent from Durham, North Carolina to customers via mail by Blackwell's Durham Telegraph. Blackwell's Durham Telegraph sent coupons to customers who bought cigarettes around the world. Customers who regularly bought Blackwell's cigarette accumulated coupons for redemption.
Blackwell's Durham Telegraph dime novel promotion : envelope Blackwell's Durham Telegraph
Promotional material sent by Blackwell's Durham Telegraph, the advertising arm of Blackwell's Genuine Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco, to a customer in Salt Lake City. The envelope is addressed to a customer in Salt Lake City, Utah. The envelope contained a coupon for promotional gifts to customers who bought tobacco from William Blackwell's Genuine Tobacco Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco.
Blackwell's Durham Telegraph dime novel promotion : valuable; the coupon inside this envelope is the regular coupon
Blackwell's Durham Telegraph, the advertising arm of Blackwell's Genuine Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco, sent an envelope to promote Blackwells' Genuine Durham Smoking Tobacco.
Blackwell's Durham Telegraph: dime novel promotion
In the late 1890s, Blackwell's Durham Telegraph offered consumers of Genuine Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco free popular literature from Munro's Library of Popular Novels in exchange for coupons from their tobacco products. This catalogue describes the promotion and lists the titles available.
Blackwell's Durham Telegraph: farm yard paper dolls
Blackwell's Durham Telegraph published this sheet of paper dolls depicting farm-yard animals as a promotion for their tobacco products.
Invitation to the wedding of Mattie Southgate to Thomas Decatur Jones
Invitation to the wedding of Thomas Decatur Jones and Mattie Southgate, scheduled for Tuesday, October 21st, 1884, at the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church in Durham, North Carolina.
John L. Markham Dry Goods Advertisements
Broadside for a general store owned by John L. Markham (formerly owned by J. W. Cheeks), advertising dry goods, notions, groceries, hardware, boots, shoes, hats, caps, clothing, iron, nails, Dixie plows, straw cutters, Geiser separators, Nissen Wagons, Spac's wagons, Ober's fertilizers, sea fowl guano, best Peruvian guano, chemicals for making home fertilizers, school books, and Keep's celebrated patent partly-made shirts. The brick store was located on the corner of Main and Mangum streets in Durham.
Lavenia Blackwell report card
Report card for Lavenia Blackwell from the Oxford Female Seminary in Oxford, North Carolina. While attending this boarding school in 1881, Lavenia studied four subjects: Preparatory (spelling, penmanship, written and mental arithmetic), Languages (Latin and French), Music (instrumental and vocal), and Fine Arts (crayon drawing).
Lessie Southgate's Scrapbook (Excerpts)
A page of concert programs from Lessie Southgate's scrapbook. These items document concerts given by Lessie Southgate, her School of Music students, and friends in Durham, North Carolina around 1885.
Life insurance policy for Richard Harvey Wright, 1877
Copy of life insurance policy application submitted by Richard H. Wright to James Southgate in 1877. The form provides information about the health of Richard, his siblings and his parents.
Life insurance policy for Thomas D. Wright, 1887
Copy of life insurance policy application submitted by Thomas D. Wright to James Southgate in 1887. The form provides information about the health of Thomas and his siblings and his parents.
Mattie Southgate report card, February 1882
1882 report card for Mattie Southgate from the Wesleyan Female Institute at Staunton, Viriginia. Mattie studied writing, natural philosophy, rhetoric, elocution, French, German, vocal music, instrumental music, calisthenics, and conduct.
Nachman and Lehman advertisements
Poster promoting products for Nachman and Lehman, a firm that sold clothes, furnishings, hats, shoes, boots, and other goods in Durham, North Carolina. The store was located on Main Street.
To the friends of education in Durham, North Carolina
The Durham Graded School Committee designed this circular to raise money for the support of Durham's graded school in the 1886-1887 school year. Eugene Morehead, R. F. Webb, Edward James Parrish, and Samuel F. Tomlinson served on the committee which sought funding for the school.
Voters of Durham! rally for your homes, your country, and your God!
The Prohibition Committee of Durham, North Carolina, created this broadside in 1886, to support a slate of candidates who vowed to abolish the sale of liquor. J.F. Freeland ran for mayor while Edward J. Parrish, G. W. Watts, C. C. Taylor, W. J. Wyatt, J. S. Carr, T. M. Stephens and J. S. Durham sought positions as town commissioners. The broadside reproduces an exchange in the Durham Recorder, between liquor dealers and church officials over whether a father sold his children's clothing to purchase alcohol.

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