Manuscripts Department
           Library of the University of North Carolina
                         at Chapel Hill

                 SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

                             #4437-z
                    WILLIAM PELL FIFE PAPERS
                            Inventory

Abstract:      Correspondence, circulars, and advertisements
           documenting the career of William Pell Fife
           (1858-1907) of Thomasville, N.C., as a stock salesman
           for western oil and mining companies.  Many items are
           lengthy printed "Personal Letters" from Fife to
           prospective purchasers of stcok, extolling the
           bargains he had available.  Companies Fife represented
           included the Sunset Gold and Mining Company, Denver,
           Colo., and the Great Western Gold Company, Ingot,
           Calif., and St. Louis, Mo.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Fife, William Pell, 1858-1907.
   Great Western Gold Company.
   Mineral industries--United States--History.
   Petroleum industry and trade--United States--History.
   Sales personnel--North Carolina--History.
   Sunset Gold and Mining Company (Denver, Colo.).

Size:  About 37 items (3 folders).

Provenance:    Transfer from the North Carolina Collection,    
               University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in
               March 1986.

Access:  No restrictions.

Copyright:     Retained by the authors of items in these papers,
               or their descendants, as stipulated by United
               States copyright law.