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Browse CollectionLC Subject Heading › 2 records found where LC Subject Heading is Company towns -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century

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.
Panoramic photograph, American Tobacco factory in Durham looking to the East
This panoramic view of Durham, North Carolina shows the factory of the American Tobacco Company, the original home of the W. T. Blackwell & Company enterprise, producer of Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco. This view was shot from the western edge of the factory complex looking eastward over the Washington Building. The image appeared in Durham, North Carolina: A Center of Industry and Education, a publication issued by the Durham Chamber of Commerce in 1926.

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