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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.
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.
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.
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.

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