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Browse Collection › LC Subject Heading › 5 records found where LC Subject Heading is Banks and banking -- North Carolina -- Durham -- 19th century
	Letter from Julian Shakespeare Carr to Richard Harvey Wright, September 17, 1887 Julian Shakepeare Carr informs Richard Harvey Wright about his plan to establish a national bank in Durham and inquires whether Wright can offer commercial space for the enterprise.
	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.
	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.
	Letter from James Southgate to James Haywood Southgate, September 01, 1887 In this letter to his son James H. Southgate, James Southgate discusses his medical condition diagnosed by Dr. A.G. Carr, Dr. Bartholow, and Dr. Frank D. Cunningham. James Southgate worries about Eugene Morehead's health and the future of the Durham bank should Morehead die. Southgate describes his diet at his hotel in Saratoga Springs and gives a report on a prayer meeting held by Reverend Dr. Simpson of t he New York Tabernacle. He anticipates his journey home and wonders if he will, upon his return, feel like Rip Van Winkle.

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