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Browse Collection › LC Subject Heading › 12 records found where LC Subject Heading is Parrish, Edward James, 1846 -1920
	Letter from Thomas D. Wright to Richard Harvey Wright, August 11, 1887 Thomas Wright highlights notable developments in the tobacco market; E. J. Parrish has announced his plans to rebuild his tobacco warehouse. Thomas also shares family news: Richard's daughter, Little May is improving. Thomas also comments on his own health.
	Letter from Thomas D. Wright to Richard Harvey Wright, January 16, 1888 Thomas Wright tells his brother, Richard Harvey Wright, about his inability to sell his firm's tobacco in the Richmond market. Thomas observes that Durham-grown tobacco costs 25% more than the tobacco offered by Richmond tobacco brokers.
	Durham, North Carolina : thirty years ago an insignificant village with a population of some five hundred A Durham Chamber of Commerce booklet, published in 1906, which presents a short history of Durham as well as numerous photographic illustrations of educational institutions, churches, manufacturing establishments and street scenes. The pamphlet also includes statistical information about Durham County and its schools.
	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...
	Letter from Thomas D. Wright to Richard Harvey Wright, December 6, 1887 In this letter to his brother Richard, Thomas Wright, proprietor of the tobacco brokerage T. D. Wright and Company, shares the challenges which he faces in the tobacco market. He also notes that Mrs. Stokes lost both of her conjoined twins after their birth.
	Edward James Parrish account Atlas Rigsbee's ledger book provides insight into the nature of commerce in late nineteenth-century Durham. These pages reflect what products tobacco dealer Edward James Parrish purchased from the general store in 1880. This account provides information about the cost and availability of staple foods like eggs, meal, butter, salt, sugar, lard, and chicken, as well as luxury items like cherries and goblets.
	Branson's North Carolina business guide This section of the guide contains physical attributes, land values, livestock values, taxes, and population statistics for Durham County. Branson notes that Durham County's population was 13,000, of which 8,500 were white and 4,500 were black. Also provided are the towns that had a post office, as well as county officers, court hearings, townships, magistrates, churches, pastors, and denominations. For individuals, Branson lists the name, nearest post office, and occupation. Edward James Parrish and Blackwell's Warehouse bought advertising space in the guide.
	Ordinances and resolutions for the government of the town of Durham, 1873 This 1873 pamphlet records laws for Durham's citizens and visitors. Includes prohibitions on cockfighting, littering, indecent exposure, and firing guns within town limits. Julian S. Carr held the post of mayor of Durham. Edward James Parrish, J. E. Lyon, J. F. Freeland, W. Mangum and James S. Lockhart served on the Durham Board of Commissioners.
	Map of Durham County, N.C. This 1887 map indicates the location of landowners, churches, quarries, saw mills, creeks, railroads and a coal mine. Includes advertisements for local businesses including the newspaper Tobacco Plant, Seeman Printery, Vaughn & Tenny, druggists and fourteen illustrations of: Morris & Son factory, J.S. Carr’s residence, E.J. Parrish’s residence, Trinity Church, Banner Ware-house, View of Main Street, View of Mangum Street, Durham Hotel (Claiborn), E. Morehead & Co. bankers, Globe warehouse, Durham Cotton mills, Z.I. Lyon & Co.’s tobacco factory, Blackwell’s Co-operative tobacco factory, and W. Duke Sons & Co.’s factory. The map provides the names and boundaries of six Durham County townships including Mangum, Lebanon, Durham, Patterson, Oak Grove, and Cedar Fork. Scale [ca. 1:63,360].
	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.
	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.
	Photograph of Lillie Parrish Portrait of Lillie Parrish, daughter of Edward James Parrish and Rosa Parrish.

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