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	Letter from W. M. Morgan to Richard Harvey Wright, April 04, 1889 William M. Morgan, who worked at the Eugene Morehead Bank, invites Richard Harvey Wright to join a new bank. He mentions the railroad and news about general store owner Atlas M. Rigsbee, John Markham, and tobacco dealers Stokes and Geer.
	Gray's new map of Durham, 1881 This cadastral map from 1881 depicts buildings, street names, businesses, property owners, and railroads in Durham, North Carolina. Scale 350 feet = 1 inch or [ca. 1:4,200].
	Durham, the queen of the golden belt An pamphlet created by Durham Consolidated Land and Improvement Company to promote investment in businesses and real estate in Durham, North Carolina. Includes three lithographs of buildings in Durham: Main Building at Trinity College; West End Cotton Factory; and Wescarr Knitting Mill. Durham is described as a sophisticated town with well-developed industrial, commercial, and residential districts for: plants, mills, factories, railroad stations and tracks, banking facilities, schools, churches, and colleges.
	Southern business guide, Section of the 1883-84 Southern Business Guide containing the personal names, business names, and street addresses of the leading merchants, manufacturers, and businessmen of Durham, North Carolina. Also provides a summary of Durham's history and railroad lines. The guide lists 71 businesses and their locations.
	Letter from Mattie Logan Southgate Jones to Thomas Decatur Jones, August 10, 1889 Mattie Southgate Jones writes her husband Thomas Decatur Jones conveying her happiness that he arrived at his destination safely. She reports that their son Decatur slept fitfully and continues to talk "insesently" about his absent father. She details her domestic chores and forwards news from A.S. DeVlarming, her husband's bookkeeper, about the Jones tobacco enterprise. She notes that the local newspaper, the Sun, published a lengthy personal about Thomas. She closes with a request that Thomas send news through his correspondence.
	Letter from Thomas Decatur Jones to A. S. DeVlarming, August 30, 1889 In a letter to his colleague A. S. DeVlarming, Thomas Decatur Jones describes a difficult railroad journey to New York City and his lengthy search for a medical specialist who could treat his ailments. Thomas notes the help his sister Lessie Southgate provides him in locating a physician. The new doctor terms his condition "lung disease." Thomas Jones penned the letter on Fancy Leaf Tobacco stationery.
	Letter from Bettie Ann Cunningham to Thomas Decatur Jones , September 08, 1885 Writing from Greensboro, North Carolina, Bettie Ann Cunningham asks her brother Thomas Decatur Jones about his expectant wife Mattie Logan. "I hope she is not uneasy and bears her trouble bravely. I believe all the ladies this year have gone a month over their time and all of them have had girls so be prepared for such a calamity as you men regard it." She also describes her brother John K. Jones' accident and how poor communication between his siblings and their mother Nancy Harriet Keen Jones delayed his medical care. In closing, Bettie advises Thomas to attend Mrs. Chapin's temperance speech when the lecturer travels to Durham.
	Aerial photograph of Durham looking toward the Northwest This aerial view of downtown Durham was taken prior to the completion of the Washington Duke Hotel (ciirca 1925). In the foreground on Main Street are the First Presbyterian Church and Durham County Courthouse. The view also shows Union Station, Liggett & Myers and Imperial Tobacco. Durham High School and the Pearl Mill Village are visible in the background.
	Letter from James Southgate to Delia H. Southgate, July 31, 1884 James Southgate writes his wife, Delia Southgate with news of their daughter Lessie's performance in Goldsboro: "Rah for Durham! Cats out did herself last night and carried the crowd." James reports on their train travel through Raleigh to Goldsboro.

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