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Browse Collection › LC Subject Heading › 19 records found where LC Subject Heading is Durham (N.C.) -- Commerce -- History -- 19th century
	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 : 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 : 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 : 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: 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.
	Chas. Emerson’s North Carolina tobacco belt directory 1886 (Excerpt) This section of Emerson's 1886 directory lists businesses within the corporate limits of the town of Durham.The directory lists the names of proprietors, stores' locations and the products sold. Individuals with African American heritage are denoted by an asterisk (*).
	North Carolina state directory and gazetteer, 1883-84 (Excerpt) Section of Chataigne's 1883-1884 gazetteer listing the names of merchants, business owners, and tradesmen in Durham County, categorized by occupation. The directory also provides information about public officials and the location of post offices.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	Caesar of tobacco : the great, quiet, confident Mr. Duke Biographical portrait of James Buchanan Duke, with a focus on his leadership role in the American Tobacco Company and the Continental Tobacco Company.
	Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, Durham, North Carolina, 1888 This fire insurance map by the Sanborn Map & Publishing Company provides a detailed look at the commercial buildings that stood within the town limits of Durham, North Carolina in 1888. The map contains an index page to city streets and the location of the county courthouse, jail, churches, manufacturers, tobacco warehouses and prizing establishments, mills, stables, and other enterprises. The map's legend provides details about the construction of the buildings (whether they have been built from stone, brick or wood) as well as details about the number of stories and windows. The map also lists the type of commercial enterprises housed in various structures. For larger businesses, the cartographer details the number of workers employed and describes the establishments’ fire-fighting capabilities. Scale ca. 1" = 50 feet. A georeferenced version of this map is also available on the Digital Durham website.
	Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, Durham, North Carolina, 1888 (Google Earth Overlay) Beta Using the Google Earth web application, we have created semi-transparent images from the original set of Fire Insurance Map of 1888 and placed these over satellite imagery of present-day Durham. Because of a paucity of information of some buildings presented on pages 6 and 7, we provide an approximate location for the Bobbin and Shuttle Mill, the Durham Cotton Manufacturing Company, and J.W. Allen's Tobacco Prize House.
	Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, Durham, North Carolina, 1884 This five-page fire insurance map by the Sanborn Map & Publishing Company provides a detailed look at the commercial buildings that stood at the center of Durham, North Carolina in 1884. The map contains an index page to city streets that identifies the location of churches, tobacco warehouses, and other enterprises. A key to the maps provides details about the construction of the buildings (whether they have been built from stone, brick or wood) as well as details about the number of stories and windows. The maps also list the type of retail enterprises housed in various structures. For larger businesses, the cartographer details the number of workers employed and describes the establishments’ fire-fighting capabilities. Scale ca. 1" = 50 feet or [ca. 1:600]. A georeferenced version of this map is also available on the Digital Durham website.
	Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, Durham, North Carolina, 1884 (Google Earth Overlay) Beta Using the Google Earth web application, we have created semi-transparent images from the original set of Fire Insurance Map of 1888 and placed these over satellite imagery of present-day Durham. Because of a paucity of information of some buildings presented on pages 6 and 7, we provide an approximate location for the Bobbin and Shuttle Mill, the Durham Cotton Manufacturing Company, and J.W. Allen's Tobacco Prize House. This fire insurance map by the Sanborn Map & Publishing Company provides a detailed look at the commercial buildings that stood within the town limits of Durham, North Carolina in 1884. The map contains an index page to city streets and the location of the county courthouse, jail, churches, manufacturers, tobacco warehouses and prizing establishments, mills, stables, and other enterprises. A key to the maps provides details about the construction of the buildings (whether they have been built from stone, brick or wood) as well as details about the number of stories a...

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