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Collection
Identifier: Mss-0162
Scope and Contents
The Courtenay Manufacturing Company Records document the operations of a textile mill including the financing of the firm, the purchase of equipment and raw cotton, the sale of cotton products, and the hiring, employment and payment of workers. The operation of a merchandise store and homes for the mill’s workers is also recorded among these records. The records consist of four series: Correspondence, Accounts Receivable, Personnel Records, and Purchase Orders as well as oversize material...
Dates:
1889 - 1971
Collection
Identifier: Mss-0154
Scope and Contents
The materials in the collection span from 1920 to 1985, with a few photographs of Courtenay and early Mill life from as early as 1899. The collection consists primarily of clippings and photographs of Newry, South Carolina collected by Henry Cater. The collection also includes photocopies of Mill baseball game rosters from the 1920s and some original pay stub envelopes from the 1930s and one from 1950. An 8mm film, "Newry in the fall of 1938" is also in the collection and has been copied...
Dates:
1899 - 1985; 1920 - 1985
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss-0316
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a centennial calendar, 1893-1993, that depict twelve photographic scenes in Newry with accompanying historical notes, twenty three news clippings that document life in the mill village circa 1966-1981, three written journal articles: "Newry" by Grace A. Wilson, "Newry: A Village Reminiscent of the Past" by Danielle Dresden, and "Christmas in Newry" by J. L. Gaillard. In addition, this collection contains sixteen 11 x 14 black and white photographs which depict...
Dates:
1966 - 1993
Collection
Identifier: Mss-0278
Abstract
Daniel E. Wegner conducted a series of interviews with eight residents of the Newry community of Oconee, SC in 1978 as part of research for his Clemson master's thesis. The interviews focus on life in the small rural mill village of Newry during the first decades of the twentieth century. Interviews are with both black and white individuals of both genders. Some of the historical information in this register is based upon research done by Karen Ellenberg and Michael Kohl in regards to Mss...
Dates:
1978
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Cater, Henry A.
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Abney Mills
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Anderson, Claude, b. 1884
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Benson, Ellis, 1908-1983
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Brock, Helen, 1903-1992
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Cannon Mills Company
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Courtenay Manufacturing Company
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Courtenay, William Ashmead, 1831-1908
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Gaillard, John L.
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Gaillard, Odessa B.
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Issaqueena Mills
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Kirby, Horace, 1900-1983
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McCullough, Lena Ruth
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Ramseur, A. Richey
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Wegner, Daniel E.
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