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Cotton textile industry -- North Carolina -- Durham

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Durham Hosiery Mill advertisement collection

 Collection
Identifier: NCC-0057
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of 11 advertisements for the Durham Hosiery Mill from 1918 to 1921, featuring the socks made at the mill. The advertisements were run in the Saturday Evening Post and the Ladies Home Journal. The postcard in the collection depicts the mill's exterior. The collection offers a look at how products from Durham were advertised nationally in the late 1910s and early 1920s.

Dates: 1918 - 1921; undated

K. P. Lewis statement

 Collection
Identifier: NCC-0237
Scope and Contents

The collection contains what appears to be a carbon copy of a two-page typed speech to Erwin Mills stakeholders signed by K.P. Lewis asking to be named Chairman of the Board.

Dates: 1948-02-06