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Browse Collection › LC Subject Heading › 4 records found where LC Subject Heading is Industrialists -- North Carolina -- Durham -- 19th century
	Southern Business Guide (Excerpt) This section of the Southern Business Guide 1879-1880 contains the names of the leading merchants, manufacturers, and entrepreneurs of Durham, North Carolina. The guide lists, in alphabetical order, 54 businesses. Includes listings for businesses on Main Street as well as W. Duke, Sons and Company, Atlas Rigsbee's General Store, R. H. Wright & Company and W. T. Blackwell & Company.
	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.
	Panoramic photograph, view of Erwin Cotton Mills This photograph shows a panoramic view of the Erwin Cotton Mills, originally established in 1892 by Benjamin N. Duke and his partners. The mill complex contained manufacturing and storage facilities as well as a company town with millworker housing and a general store. Remaining structures from the Erwin Cotton Mill, are located near Main and Ninth Streets in Durham. This image appears in the 1926 Durham Chamber of Commerce publication entitled, Durham, North Carolina: A Center of Industry and Education.
	Chas. Emerson’s North Carolina tobacco belt directory 1886 (Excerpt) This section of the 1886 directory entitled, Gazetteer of Durham County, North Carolina, lists 70 Durham County merchants and land owners, together with the name of the post office located nearest their businesses. Individuals with African American heritage are denoted by an asterisk (*). Occupations include hotel and saloon keeper, shoe maker, general store keeper and grocer, postmaster, mechanic and blacksmith, minister and pastor, saw and grist mill owner, physician, and cotton ginner.

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