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Hand-book of Durham, North Carolina : a brief and accurate description of a prosperous and growing southern manufacturing town
This pocket-sized handbook documents the people, businesses, social conditions, and government of Durham, North Carolina, and compares Durham's industrial and social advantages to other cities of the same size. It includes statistical records and information about Durham's government, health, real estate, taxes, buildings, streets, waterworks, fire departments, electric lights and gas, telephones, hotels, hospitals, markets, schools and colleges, churches, lodges, and social clubs. Included are lithographs of Mangum Street and Main Street and depictions of prominent buildings, such as: Bennett Place; Durham County Court House; the Fire House; Hotel Carolina; City Hospital; Durham Graded School; Trinity College's Main Building; Trinity Methodist Church; Main Street Methodist Church; the Presbyterian Church; the First and Second Baptist Church; bank buildings; the factory of the Blackwell Durham Tobacco Co.; Duke Tobacco Factory; and textile factories. Portraits include Isaac N. Link, ma...
Durham, North Carolina, a center of education and industry
A Durham Chamber of Commerce booklet published in 1926, Durham, North Carolina, a Center of Education and Industry presents the "story of Durham's rise to a self-conscious power in the progress of the New South." Descriptions highlight Durham's crops, manufacturing, churches, businesses, housing and recreational facilities. Includes more than 35 pages of photographs with captions and an architectural rendering of a planned suburb in the Hope Valley area of Durham.

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