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Browse Collection › LC Subject Heading › 24 records found where LC Subject Heading is Business enterprises -- North Carolina -- Durham
	Letter from Thomas D. Wright to Richard Harvey Wright, April 26, 1886 Thomas D. Wright describes an altercation and "fight" between two women and the public's response to Mr. Blackwell's sudden departure to Raleigh.
	Letter from Thomas Decatur Jones to Charlie ____, August 03, 1889 In a letter to Charlie _______, Thomas Decatur Jones complains that the heavy rains have ruined his garden crop and adversely affected the Richmond tobacco market. He describes his medical condition and the treatment prescribed by Dr. A. G. Carr which left him "almost paralyzed." This letter is written on Fancy Leaf Tobacco stationery.
	Life insurance policy for Richard Harvey Wright, 1877 Copy of life insurance policy application submitted by Richard H. Wright to James Southgate in 1877. The form provides information about the health of Richard, his siblings and his parents.
	Life insurance policy for Thomas D. Wright, 1887 Copy of life insurance policy application submitted by Thomas D. Wright to James Southgate in 1887. The form provides information about the health of Thomas and his siblings and his parents.
	Blackwell's Durham Telegraph: dime novel promotion In the late 1890s, Blackwell's Durham Telegraph offered consumers of Genuine Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco free popular literature from Munro's Library of Popular Novels in exchange for coupons from their tobacco products. This catalogue describes the promotion and lists the titles available.
	Blackwell's Durham Telegraph: farm yard paper dolls Blackwell's Durham Telegraph published this sheet of paper dolls depicting farm-yard animals as a promotion for their tobacco products.
	Panoramic photograph of Erwin Cotton Mills with mill housing Holladay Studio photographed Erwin Cotton Mills and the company's housing for its employees, which is located nearby the mill.
	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].
	Map of the town of North Durham: property of B. L. Duke and its relative position to Durham, North Carolina An 1890 map showing the property owned by Brodie Leonidas Duke in Durham, North Carolina, just east of Trinity College, in an area now identified as Trinity Park. The map also provides names of downtown streets, shows the location of Bobbin & Shuttle Mills, fertilizer factory, cotton factory and railroad lines. Scale 400 feet to 1 inch or [ca.1:4800].
	Map of the town of Durham, North Carolina:showing the property of the Durham Consolidated Land and Improvement Company This 1890 map published by the Durham Consolidated Land & Improvement Company indicates its property holdings north and west of Trinity College, Durham, North Carolina, in areas now known as Trinity Heights, Walltown, and Old West Durham. Contains an advertisement with illustration promoting Trinity College as well as a letter by Richard H. Wright, secretary of the Company, extolling the virtues of Durham's business climate. In 1890, the Durham Consolidated Land & Improvement Company published this map to indicate its property holdings north and west of Trinity College in an area now known as Trinity Heights, Walltown, and Old West Durham. The map also provides some information about streets near the Blackwell Tobacco Factory, now Downtown Durham. It also features an advertisement promoting Trinity College as well as the virtues of Durham's business climate.
	Letter from James Southgate to James Haywood Southgate, September 20, 1883 James Southgate reflects on the death of Minnie Moore and the extreme illness of Mrs. Blackwell's child, in this letter to his son, James Haywood Southgate. The elder Southgate recounts the losses that Minnie's family recently experienced and prays that Minnie's mother will find consolation in her religious faith. He describes his medical regimen in Richmond, Virginia, especially the diet of boiled eggs and meat juice that he eats. He mentions several meetings with different insurance representatives. In a postscript, he notes that the doctor recommends the addition of oysters to his diet.
	Who's who in Durham, North Carolina ,being a business directory and list of members of the Durham Chamber of Commerce This 1924 Durham Chamber of Commerce publication contains information about the Chamber and its membership. The pamphlet provides an alphabetical listing of individual members, a classified business directory, and a section of “facts about Durham.”
	Blackwell's Durham Telegraph : cork soap promotion Promotional material published by Blackwell's Durham Telegraph, the advertising division of Blackwell's Durham Co-operative Tobacco Company, offering free soap to those businesses which purchased 25-pound cases of Blackwell's Genuine Bull Durham Tobacco.
	John L. Markham Dry Goods Advertisements Broadside for a general store owned by John L. Markham (formerly owned by J. W. Cheeks), advertising dry goods, notions, groceries, hardware, boots, shoes, hats, caps, clothing, iron, nails, Dixie plows, straw cutters, Geiser separators, Nissen Wagons, Spac's wagons, Ober's fertilizers, sea fowl guano, best Peruvian guano, chemicals for making home fertilizers, school books, and Keep's celebrated patent partly-made shirts. The brick store was located on the corner of Main and Mangum streets in Durham.
	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.
	Panoramic photograph of downtown Durham looking west This panoramic view, taken from the Washington Duke Hotel, captures several landmarks. On the left, at the corner of Blackwell and Pettigrew streets, sits the historic W. T. Blackwell & Company Tobacco Factory, purveyor of Bull Durham tobacco, and part of the American Tobacco Company. The Liggett & Myers plant sits in the center panel near the horizon. The Imperial Tobacco Company and the Durham High School appear in the distance of the right panel. In the foreground on the right, sits the Durham Auditorium (now the Carolina Theatre). Holladay Studios shot the image which appears on p. 10 of the 1926 Durham Chamber of Commerce publication, Durham, North Carolina: A Center of Industry and Education.
	Panoramic photograph of the American Tobacco Company and downtown Durham The left panel of the panoramic image features the historic W.T. Blackwell and Company Factory built in 1874, and an extensive manufacturing plant owned by the American Tobacco Company. At the horizon in the center panel are the twin steeples of Duke Memorial Church and the Liggett & Myers plant; railyards and commercial buildings sit in the foreground. The right panel features buildings near the intersection of Main and Corcoran streets including the Durham Loan & Trust Building, the Washington Duke Hotel, the United States post office (built in 1904), Wright Corner, and the Geer Building. Holladay Studio shot the image for the 1926 Durham Chamber of Commerce publication, Durham, North Carolina: A Center of Industry and Education.
	Photograph of Golden Belt Manufacturing building Photograph of the Golden Belt Manufacturing building with people standing outside. The Durham Chamber of Commerce published this image in their 1926 brochure entitled Durham, North Carolina: A Center of Industry and Education.
	Panoramic photograph of Parrish Street in Durham This panoramic view of Parrish Street (circa 1926) features the six-story headquarters of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, a company established by black entrepreneurs, John Merrick, Dr. Aaron M. Moore, and Charles Clinton Spaulding. The firm's headquarters (as depicted in this image) was designed by Durham architects Rose and Rose and erected in 1921. Five years later, the building, located at 114-116 Parrish Street, housed the Mechanics and Farmers Bank, North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, Mutual Building & Loan Association, and the Merrick-McDougald-Wilson Company. After North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company moved to its new headquarters on Chapel Hill Street in 1965, the old headquarters on Parrish Street was renamed the Mechanics & Farmers Bank building. The right panel of this photograph features the Durham County Courthouse (erected in 1916) and the Union Depot, both designed by Milburn and Heister Company, architects.
	Panoramic photograph, view of Union Station looking East This Holladay Studio image presents a panoramic view of Durham from the Durham County Courthouse on Main Street to St. Joseph's AME Church on Fayetteville Street. The view depicts (from left to right) Durham County Courthouse, Hotel Lochmoor, E.H. & M.V. Lawrence, wholesale millers, Union Station, and St. Joseph's AME Church.
	Photograph of Electric, Ice Plant, Durham Traction Company A 1914 photograph of the Durham Traction Company Light and Power building, in front of which sits a motorized "Electric Truck No. 1," as well as horse-drawn wagons. Richard Harvey Wright was the first president of the company; Julian Shakespeare Carr served as Vice President.
	Photograph of Pender's Grocery Store, 709 Fayetteville Street, Durham, North Carolina This photograph depicts Pender's Stores Co., grocers, and the Hunter Masonic Temple located at 709 Fayetteville Street in the Hayti neighborhood of Durham, North Carolina. Signs in the grocery store window advertise beans, peas, lye and sugar. A gentleman stands in the doorway of the building adjacent to Pender's where the glass windows advertise the offices of Dr. Cordice, physician and surgeon.
	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, N.C. and Suburbs This 1914 map of Durham, North Carolina provides details on the town of Durham and the suburban regions of West Durham and East Durham. The map delineates the town's corporate limits, identifies the name and location of schools, some manufacturers, and railroad lines. The map also provides street names for areas that are now customarily referred to as Old West Durham, including the Ninth Street business district, Trinity Park (portion), Trinity Heights, Walltown (portion), Duke University (East Campus), Old North Durham, Downtown Durham and Fayetteville Street (Hayti), West End, Morehead Hill (portion), Edgemont and Morning Glory, Cleveland-Holloway Street, East End, East Durham (portion). Scale: 800 feet per inch.

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