Inventory of the James Spencer Love Papers, 1851-1980

Collection Number 4240

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Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Contact Information:
Manuscripts Department
CB#3926, Wilson Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
Phone: 919/962-1345
Fax: 919/962-3594
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Creator
Love, James Spencer, 1896-1962.
Title
James Spencer Love Papers, 1851-1980 (bulk 1906-1965)
Call Number
4240
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
Items: About 12,000
Linear Feet: 17.0
Abstract
James Spencer Love of Greensboro, N.C., was founder and chair of the board of Burlington Industries, Inc.
The collection consists of family and personal letters, subject files relating to civic activities, clippings and other printed material, legal and financial papers, photographs, and other items of James Spencer Love and his wife, Martha Eskridge Love. Correspondence, chiefly 1917-1960, discusses family and household news, business conditions, politics, personal finances, and matters relating to Burlington Mills, Inc. Subject files document James Spencer Love's membership on boards and committees of the University of North Carolina, Harvard University, and Davidson College, and Martha Eskridge Love's involvement with the University of North Carolina, the North Carolina Heart Association, and other organizations. Also included are diaries kept by James Spencer Love as a boy; a series of scrapbooks pertaining to Burlington Mills; a large number of photographs of Love family, friends, and associates, and textile mills; and speeches by James Spencer Love and Martha Eskridge Love. Some materials, including a narrative by Love, relate to James Spencer Love's World War I experiences with the 78th Army Infantry Division; other materials relate to Martha Eskridge Love's service in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in World War II. The addition of 1982 is chiefly photographs, but also includes a diploma and University of North Carolina Dialectic Society certificate, both 1853. The addition of 1994 includes a thesis, 1958, on Burlington Industries, Inc., and a scrapbook, 1948-1949, documenting the activities of the Anglo-American Council on Productivity. The addition of 1997 is comprised of four e.e. cummings letters, 1908-1910, written to James Spencer Love from cummings's boyhood home of Joy Farm, Silver Lake, N.H. The letter of 17 July 1908 contains several ink drawings by Cummings, including a self-portrait. The letter of 23 July 1908 is addressed to several family members--James Spencer, his mother Julia Spencer Love, and his sister Cornelia--with ink drawings of an elephant and deer. The letter of 14 July 1909 contains an acrostic "James Spencer Love" with several drawings, including a small picture of Cummings's study. The 16 August 1910 letter sends greetings and closes with a humorous self-portrait. The addition also includes two sketch books, 1872 and 1874, by Julia Spencer (Love), mother of James Spencer Love and daughter of Cornelia Phillips Spencer. The June 1872 book was created for Julia Spencer's uncle, Samuel Field Phillips.

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Administrative Information

Restrictions to Access
No restrictions.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Cornelia Spencer Love, Lela Love, Charles E. Love, and Martin E. Love, 1980-1997.
Processing Information
Processed by: Susan Ballinger, 1981-1997
Encoded by: Nancy Kaiser, December 2006
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the James Spencer Love Papers #4240, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Acrostics.
Anglo-American Council on Productivity.
Burlington Industries, Inc.
Chapel Hill (N.C.)--History.
Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
Children--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
Civic improvement--North Carolina--History--20th century.
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962.
Davidson College--Administration.
Diaries.
Drawing, American--19th century.
Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
Harvard University--Administration.
Industries--North Carolina--History--20th century.
Love family.
Love, James Spencer, 1896-1962.
Love, Julia Spencer, b. 1859.
Love, Martha Eskridge.
North Carolina Heart Association, Inc.
Notebooks--United States.
Phillips, Samuel (Samuel Field), 1824-1903.
Poets, American--20th century.
Spencer, Cornelia Phillips, 1825-1908.
Textile industry--North Carolina--History--20th century.
Textile industry--North Carolina--Photographs.
United States. Army. Infantry Division, 78th.
University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Administration.
University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--History.
World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, American.
World War, 1914-1918--United States.
World War, 1939-1945--War work.
World War, 1939-1945--Women.
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Related Collections

Cornelia Spencer Love Papers (#4131)
James Lee Love Papers (#4139)
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Biographical Note

James Spencer Love
1896 Born, 6 July, Cambridge, Mass., son of James Lee Love and Julia Spencer Love.
1917 Graduated, A.B., Harvard University.
1918 Served on headquarters staff of 78th Division, U.S. Infantry, in France.
1919 Became paymaster at Gastonia (N.C.) Cotton Manufacturing Company.
1922 Married Sara Elizabeth Love, 25 January. Their children were: James Spencer Love Jr., Robert Lee Love, Richard Love, and Julian Love.
1924 Founded Burlington Mills, Inc., Burlington, N.C.
1937 Incorporated numerous mills into Burlington Mills Corporation (in 1955 the name changed to Burlington Industries).
1941 Married Dorothy Ann Beattie, 26 September. No children.
1943 Appointed director of Textile, Clothing, and Leather Goods Bureau, War Production Board.
1944 Married Martha Effie Eskridge, 23 July. Their children were: Charles Eskridge Love, Martin Eskridge Love, Cornelia Spencer Love, and Lela Porter Love.
1962 Died, 20 January, Palm Beach, Fla.
Martha Effie Eskridge Love
1911 Born, 22 November, Shelby, N.C., daughter of Charles Lester Eskridge and Lela Porter Eskridge.
1933 Graduated, Agnes Scott College.
1935 Received degree in personnel management, Simmons College, Boston, Mass., circa 1935. Became personnel manager, J. B. Ivey Co., Charlotte, N.C.
1942 Joined Women's Army Corps.
1944 Married James Spencer Love, 23 July.
1968 Married Nathan McNeill Ayers.
1980 Died, 25 May, Greensboro, N.C.
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Collection Overview

About one-third of the James Spencer Love papers are family and personal letters, 1917-1960. This correspondence discusses family and household news, business conditions, politics, personal finances, and matters relating to Burlington Mills, Inc. Another third of the papers are subject files relating to membership of James Spencer Love on boards and committees of the University of North Carolina, Harvard University, and Davidson College. Others pertain to involvement of Martha Eskridge Love with the University of North Carolina, the North Carolina Heart Association, and other organizations. The remaining third of the papers are volumes; a large number of photographs of Love family, friends, and associates; photographs of textile mills; clippings and other printed material; a number of speeches by James Spencer Love and Martha Eskridge Love; and a few legal and financial papers. Among the volumes are several diaries kept by James Spencer Love as a boy and a series of scrapbooks pertaining to Burlington Mills, Inc.

The addition of 1982 is chiefly photographs of Love family, friends, and associates, but also includes a diploma and Dialectic Society certificate, both 1853. The addition of 1994 includes a thesis, 1958, on Burlington Industries, Inc., and a scrapbook, 1948-1949, documenting the activities of the Anglo-American Council on Productivity. The 1997 addition is comprised of four letters, dated 17 July 1908, 23 July 1908, 14 July 1909, and 16 August 1910, written to James Spencer Love by noted poet e. e. cummings. All four letters were written to Love from cummings's boyhood home of Joy Farm, Silver Lake, N.H. The letter of 17 July 1908 contains several ink drawings by cummings, including a self-portrait. The letter of 23 July 1908 is addressed to several family members--James Spencer Love, his mother Julia Spencer Love ("June"), and his sister Cornelia Love. All are in verse with ink drawings of an elephant and deer. The letter of 14 July 1909 contains an acrostic on "James Spencer Love" with several drawings, including a small picture of cummings's study. The 16 August 1910 letter sends greetings and closes with a humorous self-portrait. The 1997 addition also includes two sketch books by Julia Spencer. The June 1872 book was created for Samuel Field Phillips, the brother of Julia Spencer's mother, Cornelia Phillips Spencer. The second book is dated 1874.

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Arrangement of Collection

Series 1. Correspondence
Series 2. Subject Files
Subseries 2.1. James Spencer Love
Subseries 2.2. Martha Eskridge Love
Series 3. Writings
Series 4. Financial and Legal Material
Series 5. Volumes
Series 6. Other Material
Series 7. Printed Material
Series 8. Pictures
Subseries 8.1. Love Family, Friends, and Associates
Subseries 8.2. Textile Mills
Subseries 8.3. Other Pictures
Additions
Addition of 1982
Addition of 1994
Addition of 1995
Addition of 1997
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Items Separated

Oversize Papers (OP-4240)
Pictures (P-4240/1-624)
Oversize Pictures (OP-P-4240/1-12, 516a, 541a-543a, 550a, 568a, 562a, 610a-b, 622a)
Special Format Pictures (SF-P-4240/1-4)
Picture Albums (PA-4240/1-12)
Audio Disc (D-4240/1)
Volumes (V-4240/S-1, S-20, S-21, S-22, S-23, S-24, S-28, S-29, S-30, S-33, S-34)

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Detailed Description of the Collection

1. Correspondence, 1851-1979 (bulk 1917-1960).

About 6,000 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
Correspondence, bulk 1917-1960, consists chiefly of letters and memoranda to and from James Spencer Love ("Spencer" or JSL). James Spencer Love's correspondents include his parents, James Lee Love ("Lee") and Julia Spencer Love ("June"), his sister Cornelia Love, and various other family members, friends, and associates, including officers and division heads of Burlington Mills, Inc.
Prior to 1920, however, there are letters to and from all of the members of the Love family: James Lee, Julia, Cornelia, and Spencer. These letters discuss affairs of the Love household in Cambridge, Mass., 1889-1920; news of other family and friends; Cornelia's and Spencer's upbringing and education; Lee Love's business and professional activities; and details of summer jobs and excursions in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and New York. Particularly prominent are letters from Cornelia and Spencer at camp in Maine, 1909-1912; letters from Lee Love written in 1910 while he was in Lincolnton, N.C., helping his brother Edgar organize the Saxony Spinning Company; letters between Lee and June Love written during the summers of 1911 and 1912, while he was at Columbia University as a director of the summer session and she was in Cambridge managing his business, the Provident Teachers Agency; and, finally, letters from Spencer Love, 1917-1919, describing his military service.
From 1919, when Spencer Love went to work at the Gastonia Cotton Manufacturing Company, until 1924, when Burlington Mills opened, there are numerous letters from Lee Love to his son giving observations and advice about business and financial matters. The elder Love was in Washington, D.C., 1919-1921, working for the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, and in Philadelphia, 1922-1923, working for the Harvard Committee on Economic Research. Letters from James Spencer Love, during this period, are few and scattered.
In 1917, Cornelia Love moved to Chapel Hill, N.C., to work for the University of North Carolina Library, where she remained employed until her retirement in 1948. She continued to live in Chapel Hill until the 1970s, and her letters contain news of the town and University as well as of family and friends.
During the 1920s, letters are somewhat less frequent than in the period 1917-1919. However, during the 1930s and 1940s, the number of letters increases, especially those addressed to Spencer Love. From the late 1920s, carbon copies of James Spencer Love's outgoing letters are also present. Lee Love and Cornelia Love are the most frequent correspondents. Letters between James Spencer Love and his father during the late 1930s and early 1940s discuss political and economic issues as well as family matters.
During the late 1940s, and throughout the 1950s, there are also letters and memoranda between James Spencer Love and other members of the Burlington Mills organization. Principal concerns are speeches and personal engagements of James Spencer Love, and civic and philanthropic activities of Burlington Mills/Burlington Industries and of James Spencer Love and the Love family.
After James Spencer Love's death in January 1962, correspondence diminishes.
Folder 1
1851-1896
Folder 2
1899
Folder 3
1900-1902
Folder 4
1903-1904
Folder 5
1905
Folder 6-7
1906
Folder 8-9
1907
Folder 10-11
1908
Folder 12-14
1909
Folder 15-19
1910
Folder 20-27
1911
Folder 28-32
1912
Folder 33-34
1913
Folder 35-37
1914
Folder 38-41
1915
Folder 42-43
1916
Folder 44-52
1917
Folder 53-60
1918
Folder 61-68
1919
Folder 69-71
1920
Folder 72-73
1921
Folder 74-75
1922
Folder 76-82
1923
Folder 83-85
1924
Folder 86
1925
Folder 87
1926-1927
Folder 88
1928
Folder 89-90
1929
Folder 91
1930
Folder 92
1931
Folder 93-95
1932
Folder 96-98
1933
Folder 99-101
1934
Folder 102-108
1935
Folder 109-114
1936
Folder 115-120
1937
Folder 121-126
1938
Folder 127-132
1939
Folder 133-143
1940
Folder 144-156
1941
Folder 157-169
1942
Folder 170-182
1943
Folder 183-194
1944
Folder 195-206
1945
Folder 207-217
1946
Folder 218-226
1947
Folder 227-239
1948
Folder 240-251
1949
Folder 252-260
1950
Folder 261-267
1951
Folder 268-274
1952
Folder 275-281
1953
Folder 282-287
1954
Folder 288-295
1955
Folder 296-299
1956
Folder 300-302
1957
Folder 303-308
1958
Folder 309-314
1959
Folder 315-321
1960
Folder 322-328
1961
Folder 329-337
1962
Folder 338-340
1963
Folder 341-342
1964
Folder 343-344
1965
Folder 345
1966
Folder 346
1967
Folder 347
1968
Folder 348
1969
Folder 349
1970-1972
Folder 350
1973-1974
Folder 351
1975-1979
Folder 352
Undated

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2. Subject Files, 1932-1980.

About 3,600 items.
Correspondence, agendas, minutes, reports, lists, and other material pertaining to civic and educational involvement of James Spencer Love and Martha Eskridge Love. The majority of the files in subseries 2.1. deal with James Spencer Love's membership on various boards and committees of the University of North Carolina, Harvard University, and Davidson College--in particular, the University of North Carolina Board of Trustees, the Harvard Business School, and the Davidson Development Committee--chiefly during the 1940s and 1950s. The files also document some of Love's gifts to and fund-raising efforts for these institutions.
Subject files of Martha Eskridge Love are arranged separately in subseries 2.2. They pertain to her involvement with the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro Board of Trustees, the North Carolina Heart Association, and other groups, chiefly in the period after James Spencer Love's death. There is also a small file concerning household employees.
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2.1. James Spencer Love, 1932-1967.
About 3,000 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical.
Folder 353
Davidson, 1937, 1942-1944
Folder 354
Davidson College, 1945-1946
Folder 355
Davidson College, 1947
Folder 356-372
Davidson College, 1948
Folder 373-392
Davidson College, 1949
Folder 393-406
Davidson College, 1950
Folder 407-409
Davidson College, 1951
Folder 410
Davidson College, 1953
Folder 411
Davidson College, 1957
Folder 412-413
Harvard University: Alumni Association, 1950
Folder 414
Harvard University: Alumni Association, 1951
Folder 415
Harvard University: Alumni Association, 1955-1957
Folder 416-417
Harvard University: Class of 1917, 1937
Folder 418
Harvard University: Class of 1917, 1938-1940
Folder 419
Harvard University: Class of 1917, 1941
Folder 420
Harvard University: Class of 1917, 1942
Folder 421
Harvard University: Class of 1917, 1943-1946
Folder 422
Harvard University: Class of 1917, 1949-1952
Folder 423
Harvard University: Class of 1917, 1956-1957
Folder 424
Harvard University: Divinity School Endowment Fund, 1949-1951
Folder 425
Harvard University: Divinity School Endowment Fund, 1952
Folder 426
Harvard University: General and Miscellaneous, 1945-1961
Folder 427
Harvard University: Graduate School of Business Administration, 1932-1940
Folder 428
Harvard University: Graduate School of Business Administration, 1941
Folder 429
Harvard University: Graduate School of Business Administration, 1942
Folder 430-432
Harvard University: Graduate School of Business Administration, 1943
Folder 433-435
Harvard University: Graduate School of Business Administration, 1944
Folder 436-437
Harvard University: Graduate School of Business Administration, 1945
Folder 438-441
Harvard University: Graduate School of Business Administration, 1946
Folder 442-443
Harvard University: Graduate School of Business Administration, 1947
Folder 444-446
Harvard University: Graduate School of Business Administration, 1948
Folder 447-450
Harvard University: Graduate School of Business Administration, 1949
Folder 451-457
Harvard University: Graduate School of Business Administration, 1950
Folder 458-459
Harvard University: Graduate School of Business Administration, 1951
Folder 460-465
Harvard University: Graduate School of Business Administration, 1952
Folder 466-467
Harvard University: Graduate School of Business Administration, 1953
Folder 468
Harvard University: Graduate School of Business Administration, 1954
Folder 469
Harvard University: Graduate School of Business Administration, 1957
Folder 470
Harvard University: Graduate School of Business Administration, 1958
Folder 471-472
Harvard University: Program for Harvard Medicine, 1961
Folder 473
University of North Carolina: Board of Trustees: Gardner Award Committee, 1947-1948
Folder 474
University of North Carolina: Board of Trustees: Gardner Award Committee, 1949
Folder 475-476
University of North Carolina: Board of Trustees: Gardner Award Committee, 1950
Folder 477
University of North Carolina: Board of Trustees: Gardner Award Committee, 1951-1952
Folder 478
University of North Carolina: Board of Trustees: Gardner Award Committee, 1953
Folder 479
University of North Carolina: Board of Trustees: Gardner Award Committee, 1954
Folder 480
University of North Carolina: Board of Trustees: Gardner Award Committee, 1955-1956
Folder 481
University of North Carolina: Board of Trustees: Gardner Award Committee, 1957-1960
Folder 482
University of North Carolina: Board of Trustees: General and Miscellaneous, 1949
Folder 483
University of North Carolina: Board of Trustees: General and Miscellaneous, 1950
Folder 484
University of North Carolina: Board of Trustees: General and Miscellaneous, 1951
Folder 485
University of North Carolina: Board of Trustees: General and Miscellaneous, 1952
Folder 486
University of North Carolina: Board of Trustees: General and Miscellaneous, 1953
Folder 487
University of North Carolina: Board of Trustees: General and Miscellaneous, 1954
Folder 488
University of North Carolina: Board of Trustees: General and Miscellaneous, 1955
Folder 489
University of North Carolina: Board of Trustees: General and Miscellaneous, 1956
Folder 490
University of North Carolina: Board of Trustees: General and Miscellaneous, 1957-1958
Folder 491
University of North Carolina: Board of Trustees: General and Miscellaneous, 1960-1961
Folder 492-503
University of North Carolina: Board of Trustees: Presidential Committee, 1949
Folder 504
University of North Carolina: Board of Trustees: Presidential Committee, 1950
Folder 505-506
University of North Carolina: Business School, 1946
Folder 507
University of North Carolina: Business School, 1947
Folder 508
University of North Carolina: Business School, 1948
Folder 509-510
University of North Carolina: Business School, 1949
Folder 511
University of North Carolina: Business School, 1950
Folder 512-513
University of North Carolina: Business School, 1951
Folder 514
University of North Carolina: Business School, 1952
Folder 515
University of North Carolina: Business School, 1953
Folder 516-517
University of North Carolina: Business School, 1954
Folder 518-519
University of North Carolina: Business School, 1955-1956
Folder 520-526
University of North Carolina: Carmichael Memorial Committee, 1961
Folder 527-530
University of North Carolina: Carolina Symposium: Correspondence, 1958
Folder 531-533
University of North Carolina: Carolina Symposium: Drafts of Speech
Folder 534-535
University of North Carolina: Committee on the Chancellor, 1956
Folder 536
University of North Carolina: Committee on the Chancellor, 1957
Folder 537
University of North Carolina: Development Council, 1951
Folder 538-542
University of North Carolina: Development Council, 1952
Folder 543-546
University of North Carolina: Development Council, 1953
Folder 547-548
University of North Carolina: Development Council, 1954
Folder 549
University of North Carolina: Development Council, 1960
Folder 550
University of North Carolina: Educational Foundation, 1946-1948
Folder 551
University of North Carolina: Educational Foundation, 1949
Folder 552
University of North Carolina: Educational Foundation, 1950
Folder 553
University of North Carolina: General and Miscellaneous, 1942-1944
Folder 554
University of North Carolina: General and Miscellaneous, 1945-1946
Folder 555
University of North Carolina: General and Miscellaneous, 1947-1948
Folder 556
University of North Carolina: General and Miscellaneous, 1949-1950
Folder 557
University of North Carolina: General and Miscellaneous, 1951-1952
Folder 558
University of North Carolina: General and Miscellaneous, 1953
Folder 559
University of North Carolina: General and Miscellaneous, 1956-1961
Folder 560
University of North Carolina: Institute of Government, 1940-1941
Folder 561
University of North Carolina: Institute of Government, 1942-1947
Folder 562
University of North Carolina: Institute of Government, 1949
Folder 563
University of North Carolina: Institute of Government, 1950-1953
Folder 564
University of North Carolina: Institute of Government, 1955-1958
Folder 565
University of North Carolina: Institute of Government, 1959-1960
Folder 566
University of North Carolina: Institute of Government, 1962
Folder 567
University of North Carolina: Institute of Government, 1963
Folder 568
University of North Carolina: Institute of Government, 1967
Folder 569
University of North Carolina: Medical Foundation, 1950-1953
Folder 570
University of North Carolina: Medical Foundation, 1955-1957
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2.2. Martha Eskridge Love, 1951-1980.
About 600 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical.
Folder 571
Defense Advisory Committee, 1951
Folder 572
Defense Advisory Committee, 1952
Folder 573
Household Employees, 1960-1968
Folder 574
North Carolina Heart Association, 1963
Folder 575-576
North Carolina Heart Association, 1964
Folder 577
North Carolina Heart Association, 1965-1966
Folder 578
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: School of Medicine, 1964
Folder 579
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: School of Medicine, 1965-1966
Folder 580
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: School of Medicine, 1967
Folder 581
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: School of Medicine, 1968-1969
Folder 582
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: School of Medicine, 1970-1971
Folder 583
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: School of Medicine, 1972-1973
Folder 584
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: School of Medicine, 1974-1975
Folder 585
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: School of Medicine, 1976
Folder 586
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: School of Medicine, 1977
Folder 587
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: School of Medicine, 1978-1979
Folder 588
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Tar Heel One Hundred, 1974
Folder 589-590
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Tar Heel One Hundred, 1975
Folder 591
University of North Carolina at Greensboro: Board of Trustees, 1965, 1977
Folder 592
University of North Carolina at Greensboro: Board of Trustees, 1978
Folder 593
University of North Carolina at Greensboro: Board of Trustees, 1979
Folder 594-595
University of North Carolina at Greensboro: Board of Trustees, 1980
Folder 596
University of North Carolina at Greensboro: Excellence Fund, 1976-1979
Folder 597-600
University of North Carolina at Greensboro: Love Scholarships, 1964
Folder 601
University of North Carolina at Greensboro: Love Scholarships, 1965-1966
Folder 602
University of North Carolina at Greensboro: Youth Fitness Commission, 1958-1959

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3. Writings, 1868-1970.

About 80 items.
Primarily speeches by James Spencer Love, 1943-1962, and by Martha Eskridge Love, 1941 and 1958-1970, with a few by other individuals. There are multiple drafts of some speeches. Besides the speeches, there are drafts of several articles by James Lee Love, 1947-1948, and miscellaneous writings by other authors, including poetry by Cornelia Phillips Spencer as well as drafts of the "Spencer Love Story," published by Burlington Industries after James Spencer Love's death. Of particular interest is a copy of the "Hooper Club Magazine," 1908, "published" by a group of Cambridge, Mass., children which included James Spencer Love and e. e. cummings.
Folder 603
James Spencer Love, 1943, 1945
Folder 604
James Spencer Love, 1947, 1951
Folder 605-606
James Spencer Love, 1954
Folder 607-609
James Spencer Love, 1955
Folder 610
James Spencer Love, 1958, 1959
Folder 611
James Spencer Love, 1962
Folder 612
Martha Eskridge Love, 1941
Folder 613-614
Martha Eskridge Love, 1958
Folder 615
Martha Eskridge Love, 1960
Folder 616
Martha Eskridge Love, 1962
Folder 617
Martha Eskridge Love, 1963
Folder 618
Martha Eskridge Love, 1964
Folder 619
Martha Eskridge Love, 1965-1966, 1970
Folder 620
Others, 1963, 1965
Folder 621
James Lee Love, 1947-1952
Folder 622
Miscellaneous, 1868-1889
Folder 623
Miscellaneous, 1908-1922
Folder 624
Miscellaneous, 1948-1962

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4. Financial and Legal Material, 1854-1950.

22 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
Miscellaneous and scattered papers including receipts, expense accounts, wills, and certificates. Among these items are an attorney's license for James Monroe Spencer, 1854; a list of expenditures for relief of the poor in Chapel Hill, N.C., 1867; and wills, 1936 and 1950, of James Lee Love.
Folder 625
1854-1934
Folder 626
1936-1950

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5. Volumes, 1874-1965.

32 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
Primarily scrapbooks and diaries, with a few school notebooks, memo books, and account books. There are seven large scrapbooks containing mostly newspaper clippings that deal with the history of Burlington Mills and the life of James Spencer Love. Also included is a scrapbook kept by Cornelia Love while she was a student at Radcliffe College, 1910-1914, and two scrapbooks containing photographs and other materials from European trips taken by James Spencer Love and Martha Eskridge Love, 1952-1954. Among the diaries are a number kept by James Spencer Love as a boy and as a young man. The remaining volumes include mainly school notebooks and memo books kept by James Spencer Love, James Lee Love, and Julia James Spencer Love ("June").
Volume V-4240/S-1
School notebook, Julia J. Spencer, 1874, 1885
Volume V-4240/2
School notebook, Julia J. Spencer, 1881
Volume V-4240/3
Pocket memo book, James Lee Love, 1883-1884
Volume V-4240/4
Household accounts, Julia Spencer Love, 1893-1910
Volume V-4240/5
Attendance record book for Sunday school class taught by James Spencer Love, circa 1914-1917
Volume V-4240/6
Pocket diary, Julia Spencer Love, 1905
Volume V-4240/7
Pocket notebook, James Spencer Love, 1907-1908
Volume V-4240/8-11
Pocket diaries, James Spencer Love, 1908-1910
Volume V-4240/12
Scrapbook kept at Radcliffe College, Cornelia Love, 1910-1914
Volume V-4240/13
Lab book for physics course, James Spencer Love, 1911-1912
Volume V-4240/14
Pocket diary, James Spencer Love, 1911-1915
Volume V-4240/15
History notebook kept at Harvard, James Spencer Love, 1915-1916
Volume V-4240/16
Pocket memo book, James Spencer Love, circa 1916-1917
Volume V-4240/17
Cash book for lumber mill, North Carolina (?), 1917-1918
Volume V-4240/18
Memo book, James Spencer Love, 1923-1945
Volume V-4240/19
Pocket diary, James Spencer Love, 1921-1925
Volume V-4240/S-20-22
Scrapbooks, Burlington Mills and James Spencer Love, 1923-1950
Volume V-4240/S-23
Scrapbook, Davidson College Development Committee, 1948-1950
Volume V-4240/S-24
Scrapbook, Burlington Mills and James Spencer Love, 1950-1954
Volume V-4240/25
Trip book, James Spencer Love, 1951-1960
Volume V-4240/26-27
Scrapbooks from European trips by James Spencer Love and Martha Eskridge Love, 1952-1954
Volume V-4240/S-28-30
Scrapbooks, Burlington Mills and James Spencer Love, 1954-1962
Volume V-4240/31
Burlington Industries' Resolution on the death of James Spencer Love, 30 January 1962
Volume V-4240/32
Scrapbook, Burlington Industries, 1963-1965

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6. Other Material, circa 1899-1974.

About 1,200 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
Roughly one-fourth of this material is themes and reports written by James Spencer Love for various classes at Cambridge Latin School and Harvard University, 1910-1917, along with copies of exam questions, report cards, and other school-related items.
Another fourth consists of copies of official orders, memos, and telegrams related to James Spencer Love's service in World War I and to the actions of the 78th Division, United States Infantry, January 1918-July 1919. In addition, there is a nine-page account by James Spencer Love, dated 24 February 1919, of his experiences in the war. There are less numerous memos, orders, etc., related to Martha Eskridge's service in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, 1942-1944.
The remaining half of the material consists largely of various lists, 1944-1974, created chiefly by Martha Eskridge Love. These include lists of addresses; of invitations for weddings, dinner parties, etc.; of visitors received; and of Christmas cards and gifts sent and received. Also included are lists of condolence messages received at the deaths of James Lee Love in 1950 and James Spencer Love in 1962. Additionally, there are detailed plans for large dinner parties, including lists of preparations to be made, menus, directions for household staff, expenses, etc.
Other materials include a few biographical and genealogical papers; awards and certificates of Martha Eskridge Love and James Spencer Love; and a few broadsides and an audio disc relating to Burlington Corporation, Burlington Mills, and the textile industry.
Folder 627
1899-1906
Folder 628
1908-1910
Folder 629
1911-1913
Folder 630
1914
Folder 631-632
1915
Folder 633-635
1916
Folder 636-637
1917
Folder 638-645
1918
Folder 646-647
1919
Folder 648
1935
Folder 649-650
1942
Folder 651-652
1943
Folder 653
1944
Folder 654
1949
Folder 655
1950
Folder 656
1951-1957
Folder 657
1958
Folder 658-659
1959
Folder 660-661
1960
Folder 662
1961
Folder 663-665
1962
Folder 666
1963-1964
Folder 667
1965
Folder 668
1966-1967
Folder 669
1968
Folder 670
1969
Folder 671
1970-1974
Folder 672
Biographical and genealogical material
Oversize Paper Folder OP-4240
Tribute to Cornelia Phillips Spencer by Mrs. George T. Winston, 22 November 1904
Assignment lists for work on the Harvard Crimson, 1915-1917
"An Announcement of Sales Policy," by Burlington Corporation, 8 July 1941
Broadside, concerning CIO union organizing at Burlington Mills, circa March 1943
"The Boston Declaration," 18 May 1950
Economic declaration by members of American industry
Broadside, concerning Boston Jubilee Award for Industrial Statesmanship to James Spencer Love, August 1950
Membership certificate, Martha Eskridge Love, Co-founders Club of UNC School of Medicine, 14 April 1966
Printed list of "America's Textile Schools," undated
Audiodisc D-4240/1
"Woven into the Life of America," by Burlington Mills

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7. Printed Material, 1877-1965.

About 100 items.
Printed material consists of items by and about Cornelia Phillips Spencer, playbills, clippings, invitations, pamphlets, programs, magazines, and a miscellaneous collection of poems, menus, reports, dance cards, and membership cards. Included are items pertaining to the Harvard Crimson; the Harvard Dramatic Club; President Woodrow Wilson's 14 February 1919 visit to Boston; a dinner honoring Nikita Khrushchev given by the Economic Club of New York, 17 September 1959; the 1949 presidential inauguration; the Cambridge Review; and other materials. Magazines contain articles about James Spencer Love and Burlington Industries.
Folder 673
Cornelia Phillips Spencer, 1877-1946
Includes programs with hymns composed by Cornelia Phillips Spencer for university events
Folder 674
Playbills, 1915-1922 and undated
Folder 675
Pamphlets
"Rules and Suggestions for Editors and Candidates in Preparation of Copy for the Crimson," 1 March 1911; "Songs the Soldiers and Sailors Sing" (New York: Leo Feist, Inc., 1918-1919)
Folder 676
Programs, 1904-1919
Folder 677
Programs, 1954-1962
Folder 678
Invitations, 1949 Inauguration of President Harry S Truman.
Folder 679
Invitations, 1889, 1910-1963
Includes the wedding invitation of Samuel Field Phillips and Sarah Maria Maury and a sample of invitations received by the Loves
Folder 680
Clippings, 1943-1960
Folder 681
Cambridge Review, October 1909
Folder 682
Cambridge Review, June 1910; The Jabberwock (Girls' Latin School, Boston), December 1919
Folder 683
Fortune, July 1937, "And Who Will Weave It?" (photocopy); Forbes, 15 March 1947; Bronze Tablet (Davidson College), January 1950
Folder 684
Modern Textiles, May 1960; We The People, April 1961
Folder 685
Brochures for J. Spencer Love Fellowships Programs, 1957, 1962, and undated
Sponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and Burlington Industries Foundation
Folder 686
"The New World of Burlington Hosiery," 1965
Folder 687
Miscellaneous items, 1911-1916
Poems, menus, reports of the business manager of the Harvard Crimson, Columbia University summer school listings
Folder 688
Miscellaneous items, 1912-1917
Dance cards, membership cards, tickets

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8. Pictures, circa 1850-1974.

About 500 items.
Pictures, including photographs, photograph albums, drawings, and sketchbooks, are divided into three subseries. Subseries 8.1. consists of photographs of Love family members, friends, and associates, and of numerous social, civic, and professional events. Also included are a few ambrotypes and tintypes and seven photograph albums (circa 1900-1954). The photographs document family life, education, recreation, and professional and civic life. Subseries 8.2. contains snapshots (circa 1930s) of textile mills, mill construction, and mill houses. Subseries 8.3. consists of photographs of two Love residences, five sketchbooks (circa 1868-1870) of Julia Spencer ("June"), a few other drawings of hers and a photograph of one of her paintings.
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8.1. Love Family, Friends, and Associates, circa 1850-1974.
About 350 items.
Photographs are arranged in this order: identified individuals, identified groups, identified events and scenes, unidentified individuals and events, photograph albums.
Image P-4240/1-32
James Spencer Love
Image P-4240/33
Laura Battle Phillips
Image P-4240/34
Mrs. Samuel Field Phillips
Image P-4240/35-39
Julia Spencer Love ("June")
Image P-4240/40
James Lee Love, 1940
Image P-4240/41-45
Cornelia Spencer Love ("Spencie")
Image P-4240/46-47
Sara Elizabeth Love, circa 1920
Image P-4240/48-51
Martha Eskridge Love
Image P-4240/52-54
Charles Eskridge Love
Image P-4240/55
Martin Eskridge Love, 1966
Image P-4240/56
Cornelia Spencer Love, 1966
Image P-4240/57
Lela Porter Love, 1966
Image P-4240/58
Emma Belle Moore, circa 1890
Image P-4240/59
Butts Overton Schutte, 1894
Image P-4240/60
W. J. Carter
Image P-4240/61-62
William Klopman
Image P-4240/473
Mrs. C. P. Spencer, 1879
Oversize Image OP-P-4240/1-5
James Spencer Love
Oversize Image OP-P-4240/6
Laura Battle Phillips
Oversize Image OP-P-4240/7-8
Charles Love and Martin Love
Oversize Image OP-P-4240/9
Charles F. Myers Sr.
Special Format Image SF-4240/1
Ambrotype
Possibly of James Monroe Spencer, circa 1850s
Image P-4240/63-95
Love family groups, circa 1897-1965
Image P-4240/96-157
Series of mixed family and friends, 1946-1948
Image P-4240/158-170
Non-family groups
Image P-4240/171-174
Service pin presentation, Piedmont Heights Mill, Burlington, N.C., 4 August 1945
Image P-4240/175
Luncheon for the Maharani and Princess Vemla of India, 15 June 1948
Image P-4240/176-200
Events related to Davidson College and its Development Campaign, circa 1948-1950
Image P-4240/201-207
Textile Veterans Association Achievement Award Dinner, 1952
Image P-4240/208-209
University of North Carolina Commencement, June 1953
Honorary degree conferred on James Spencer Love
Image P-4240/210-213
New York Board of Trade Award Dinner, November 1954
Image P-4240/214-216
Davidson College dormitory dedication and receipt of honorary degree by James Spencer Love, 1 November 1957
Image P-4240/217
North Carolina State Commission on Youth Fitness, circa 1958
Image P-4240/218
Philadelphia Textile Institute Commencement, 7 June 1958
Image P-4240/219-226
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College Commencement, June 1959
Honorary degree conferred on James Spencer Love
Image P-4240/227-228
Presentation of Certificate of Distinguished Citizenship to Luther H. Hodges by North Carolina Citizens Association, March 1961
Image P-4240/229-245
Funeral of James Spencer Love, 22 January 1962
Image P-4240/246-248
Donation of Love Scholarships to University of North Carolina at Greensboro, March 1964
Image P-4240/249-252
Burlington Industries' gift to University of North Carolina for the James Spencer Love Clinics, October 1964
Image P-4240/253-254
North Carolina Heart Association, circa 1964
Image P-4240/255-271
Burlington Industries International Directors Meeting, May 1965
Image P-4240/272-277
Burlington House Awards, 1974
Image P-4240/278-282
Peace Institute, Raleigh, N.C., circa 1881-1884
Image P-4240/414-433
Tennis scenes: James Spencer Love and others playing
Image P-4240/436-441
Unidentified individuals
Image P-4240/442-469
Unidentified individuals
Special Format Image SF-4240/2-4
Unidentified tintypes
Image P-4240/470-472
Unidentified events
Photograph Album PA-4240/6
Love family and friends, circa 1900-1909
Photograph Album PA-4240/7
Love family and friends, circa 1909-1920
Photograph Album PA-4240/8
Love family and friends, circa 1909-1920
Contains a number of pictures related to James Spencer Love's military service. Note: A "List of Official U.S. Photographs Illustrative of the Activities of the 78th Division" is filed with this album. The album contains copies of some of the official photos listed.
Photograph Album PA-4240/9
Love family and friends, 1928-1934
Photograph Album PA-4240/10
Love family and friends, 1937-1941
Photograph Album PA-4240/11
Love family and friends, 1942-1950
Photograph Album PA-4240/12
Love family and friends, 1950-1954
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8.2. Textile Mills, 1920s-1930s.
About 100 items.
Image P-4240/283
Altavista Weaving Co., Altavista, Va.
Image P-4240/284-298
Bristol Weaving Co., Bristol, Tenn.: Construction, circa 1936-1938
Image P-4240/299-321
Cascade Mill, Mooresville, N.C.: Mainly mill houses, 1937
Image P-4240/322-323
Central Falls Manufacturing Co., Asheboro, N.C.
Image P-4240/324
Gastonia Cotton Manufacturing Co., Gastonia, N.C.: Office, circa 1920-1924
Image P-4240/325-344
Goria Rayon Mills, Johnson City, Tenn.: Construction and completed mill, circa 1933-1935
Image P-4240/345-350
Lexington Silk Mill, Lexington, N.C.
Image P-4240/351-357
Mayfair Plant, Burlington, N.C.
Image P-4240/358-366
Ossipee Weaving Co., Elon College, N.C.
Image P-4240/367
Puritan Weaving Co., Fayetteville, N.C.
Image P-4240/368-375
Radford Weaving Co., Radford, Va.: Construction, 1937
Image P-4240/376-381
Roanoke, Va.(?), 1937
Image P-4240/382-387
Stehli Silks, High Point, N.C.
Oversize Image OP-P-4240/10
Lithograph of Harriman Hosiery Mills, Harriman, Tenn.
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8.3. Other Pictures, circa 1868-1950.
About 35 items.
Image P-4240/388-411
Dinwiddie Farm, Loudoun County, Va.: House (exterior), grounds, circa 1950
Image P-4240/412-413
1610 Granville Road, Greensboro, N.C.: House (exterior)
Image P-4240/434-435
Pencil drawing by June Spencer and a watercolor drawing
Oversize Image OP-P-4240/11
Pencil drawing by June Spencer
Oversize Image OP-P-4240/12
"Autumn in Chapel Hill, 1885": Photo of a painting by June J. Spencer
Photograph Album PA-4240/1-5
Sketch books of June Spencer, circa 1868-1870

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Additions.

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Addition of July 1982 (Acc. 82093), 1853-1962.
About 160 items.
Photographs of James Spencer Love; members of the Love family, including his mother, Julia Spencer Love ("June"); his third wife, Martha Eskridge Love; and his children, James Spencer Love Jr., Julian Love, Martin Love, Charles Love, Cornelia Spencer Love ("Spencie"), and Lela Porter Love. Photographs also depict scenes and activities associated with James Spencer Love's work with Burlington Mills. Also included are an 1853 University of North Carolina diploma and Dialectic Society certificate, both for James Monroe Spencer.
Processing notes
In this series, oversize pictures are numbered as part of the regular run of pictures.
Oversize Paper OP-4240
Dialectic Society certificate, James Monroe Spencer, 1 June 1853
Diploma from the University of North Carolina, James Monroe Spencer, 2 June 1853
Image P-4240/474
James Spencer Love, circa 1905-1910
Series of five images
Image P-4240/475-516
James Spencer Love, circa 1908-1962
From youth until just before his death; several photographers are identified
Oversize Image OP-P-4240/516a
Woven "photo" of James Spencer Love, 1962
Information originally attached to photograph: "Woven in the original plant of Burlington Industries for Mrs. J. Spencer Love by long service employees-Pioneer Plant, Burlington House Fabrics Division of Burlington Industries, Christmas, 1962."
Image P-4240/517
James Spencer Love and June Spencer Love, circa 1898-1899
Victoria card. Photographer: Pach Brothers, Cambridge, Mass.
Image P-4240/518
James Spencer Love and Martha Eskridge Love, circa 1944
Image P-4240/519
James Spencer Love, Martha Eskridge Love, Martin Love, and Charles Love, circa 1947-1949
Image P-4240/520
James Spencer Love, James Spencer Love Jr., Julian Love, Martin Love, and Charles Love, circa 1948-1950
Image P-4240/521-528
James Spencer Love, Martin Love, Charles Love, and several unidentified people on the Dinwiddie Farm in Loudoun County, Va., circa 1951
Photographs taken by the Burlington Mills Public Relations Department
Image P-4240/529-532
James Spencer Love, Martin Love, Charles Love, and Spencie Love, circa 1949-1951
Image P-4240/533
James Spencer Love and Martha Eskridge Love, 1952
Information at bottom of image: "MS Stella Polaris-North Cape Cruise, 1952."
Image P-4240/534-535
James Spencer Love and Martha Eskridge Love, 1956
Information at bottom of image: "R.M.S. Caronia'-Mediterranean Cruise 1956."
Image P-4240/536
James Spencer Love, Martha Eskridge Love, and three unidentified people, circa 1952-1957
Information at bottom of image: "Photographed on board R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth."
Image P-4240/537-538
James Spencer Love, Martha Eskridge Love, their four children, and other family members, circa 1952-1954
Photographer: Bert Morgan, Palm Beach, Florida
Image P-4240/539
James Spencer Love, Martha Eskridge Love, and four unidentified people, circa 1950-1960
Image P-4240/540
James Spencer Love, Martha Eskridge Love, and three unidentified people, circa 1950-1960
Image P-4240/541
James Spencer Love, Martha Eskridge Love, and four unidentified people, circa 1950-1960
Photographer: Bert and Richard Morgan Studio, Palm Beach, Fla.
Oversize Image OP-P-4240/541a
James Spencer Love and Martha Eskridge Love in evening attire, circa 1950-1960
Photographer: Bert and Richard Morgan Studio, Palm Beach, Fla.
Image P-4240/542
James Spencer Love and a group of unidentified people at a restaurant, circa 1950-1960
Photographer: P. J. DeSantis, Great Neck, N.Y.
Oversize Image OP-P-4240/542a
James Spencer Love, Martha Eskridge Love, and their four children, circa 1958-1961
Photographer: Bert and Richard Morgan Studio, Palm Beach, Fla.
Image P-4240/543
James Spencer Love with a group of his colleagues in front of the family business, circa 1925-1935
Back row, left to right: Jim Copeland, Clair Gingher, unidentified bookkeeper, Bill Horne, Tom Saunders, Carl Wicker, Earl Wilkins, Marvin Smith, McD. Reid, Spencer Love. Front row, left to right: Mamie Wilson, Frances Browning and Hazel Teer
Oversize Image OP-P4240/543a
James Spencer Love with a group of colleagues, 1937
Top row: Cowan, Fiske, Love, Haynsworth, Sain. Second row: McConnell. Third row: Williams, Stadler, Garvin, Boydell, Speir, Warren. Fourth row: Boggs, Frissell, Fewell, McCrosson, Spencer, Gassman, Burrows. Fifth row: Folk, Horne, Ram, Strupler, Seddon, DeSanto, Ruegg, Pepperell.
Image P-4240/544-545
James Spencer Love with five men, 1939
From left to right: Houston, Thomas, James Spencer Love, Klapman, Garvin, Tom Winston (?), Cowan
Image P-4240/546
James Spencer Love receiving an honorary degree at Philadelphia Technical Institute, 1958
A press release is attached to verso of photograph
Image P-4240/547
James Spencer Love with several unidentified people examining clothing, circa 1945-1960
Image P-4240/548-549
James Spencer Love with several unidentified people in a textile factory, circa 1945-1955
Image P-4240/550
James Spencer Love and several unidentified men walking under raised swords, circa 1945-1955
Oversize Image OP-P-4240/550a
James Spencer Love and fifteen unidentified men sitting beside a swimming pool, circa 1940-1955
Image P-4240/551-552
James Spencer Love and five unidentified men standing in front of a Burlington display, circa 1945-1955
Image P-4240/553
James Spencer Love and two unidentified men in the "thinker's" position, circa 1950-1961
Image P-4240/554
James Spencer Love and several unidentified men playing cards, circa 1950-1961
Photographer: Roy C. Matherly, Greensboro, N.C.
Image P-4240/555
James Spencer Love and Gordon Gray standing in front of a display for The University Report (newsletter), circa 1950-1961
Image P-4240/556
James Spencer Love and an unidentified man looking at a silver tray, probably an award given to James Spencer Love, circa 1950-1961
Image P-4240/557
James Spencer Love and four unidentified people with an award, 1957
Image P-4240/558
James Spencer Love and Luther Hodges holding a certificate awarded to Hodges by The North Carolina Citizens Association, 1961.
Photographer: Burne Batchelor, Raleigh, N.C.
Oversize Image OP-P-4240/558a
James Spencer Love and twelve unidentified men sitting around a boardroom table, circa 1945-1955
Image P-4240/559-562
James Spencer Love, Richard Love, and several unidentified people at a Lambda Chi Alpha banquet, circa 1956
Photographer: Wooten-Moulton, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Oversize Image OP-P-4240/562a
James Spencer Love, Richard Love, and several unidentified people at a Lambda Chi Alpha banquet, circa 1956
Information on verso: Made honorary member of Lambda Chi Alpha
Image P-4240/563-566
James Spencer Love and several unidentified people at a board meeting in Altavista, Va., 1956
Image P-4240/567-569
James Spencer Love and several unidentified men at a banquet, circa 1950-1961
Image P-4240/570
James Spencer Love, Luther Hodges, and Martha Blakeney Hodges at a banquet, circa 1955-1961
Image P-4240/571
James Spencer Love, Kerr Scott, and three unidentified people at a banquet, circa 1948-1958
Image P-4240/572
James Spencer Love and several unidentified men at a banquet, circa 1945-1960
Photographer: Stephen Blake, Hot Springs, Va.
Image P-4240/573
James Spencer Love and a group of unidentified men at a meeting, circa 1945-1960
Image P-4240/573a
James Spencer Love receiving a gift from an unidentified man at a banquet, circa 1945-1960
Image P-4240/574
James Spencer Love giving a speech at a banquet, circa 1945-1960
Image P-4240/575
James Spencer Love and two unidentified men at a banquet held for the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce, circa 1950-1961
Image P-4240/576
James Spencer Love at a White House meeting with President John F. Kennedy, Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodges, and other unidentified officials, 1961
Image P-4240/577
James Spencer Love in France with a group from the 78th Division of the U.S. Infantry, 1918
Photographer: White, N.Y.
Image P-4240/578-581
James Spencer Love with groups of unidentified people, circa 1940-1960
Several photographers identified
Image P-4240/582
Unidentified man, possibly James Spencer Love's grandfather, Robert Calvin Grier Love, circa 1870-1890
Image P-4240/583
James Lee Love, 1911
Photographer: Notman Studio, Boston, Mass.
Image P-4240/584
James Lee Love, 1946
Image P-4240/585-586
June Spencer Love wearing Dialectic Society Medallion, 1884
Carte-de-visite. Photographer: Hunt's, Raleigh, N.C.
Image P-4240/587
June Spencer Love, circa 1895-1915
Photographer: Stolman (?)
Image P-4240/588
Cornelia Spencer Love, circa 1893
Cabinet card. Photographer: W. H. Riggsbee
Image P-4240/589
Cornelia Spencer Love, circa 1915-1935
Image P-4240/590
Cornelia Spencer Love, circa 1930-1950
Photographer: Bradford Bachrach
Image P-4240/591
Martha Eskridge Love, 1941
Photographer: Ivey's
Image P-4240/592-593
Martha Eskridge Love, circa 1944-1950
Image P-4240/594
Martha Eskridge Love, Martin Love, and Charles Love, and her mother Lela Porter Eskridge, circa 1947
Photographer: Richard A. Little
Image P-4240/595
James Lee Love and Bur-Mil educational loan recipients, Banks Shepard, Mary Sue Smith, and James Horne, 1946
Image P-4240/596
Lela Porter Eskridge and Charles Love, circa 1946
Image P-4240/597
James Lee Love with Martin Love and a child identified as Chris Orth, circa 1948
Image P-4240/598
Charles Love and Martin Love, circa 1948-1949
Image P-4240/599
Charles Love and Martin Love, William West Eskridge (a cousin), and an unidentified man at Palm Beach, 1949
Image P-4240/600
Charles Love, Martin Love, and Spencie Love, 1951
Photographer: George Sandersan (?)
Image P-4240/601
Charles Love, Martin Love, Spencie Love, and Lela Love, circa 1953-1955
Image P-4240/602
Charles Love, Martin Love, Spencie Love, and Lela Love standing in front of a playhouse, circa 1955-1957
Image P-4240/603-609
Martha Eskridge Love, Charles Love, Martin Love, and Spencie Love, and several unidentified people, circa 1951
Taken on the Dinwiddie Farm in Loudoun County, Va., by the Burlington Mills Public Relations Department
Image P-4240/610
Frank Porter Graham, circa 1955-1960
Photographer: Harris and Ewing. Information at bottom of image: "To my good friends, Martha and Spencer Love, with affectionate regards and best wishes, Sincerely, Frank Graham."
Oversize Image OP-P-4240/610a
Taken at the sale of the Gastonia Cotton Manufacturing Co. (?), 1924
Oversize Image OP-P-4240/610b
Burlington Mills Sales Convention at Hotel Astor in New York, 1951
Photographer: Empire Photographers, New York
Image P-4240/611
Two unidentified people looking at a grave marker, circa 1955-1965
Taken by the Burlington Mills Public Relations Department
Image P-4240/612-622
Miscellaneous photographs of fabric displays, awards given to James Spencer Love, and articles written about James Spencer Love, circa 1950s
Oversize Image OP-P-4240/622a
A factory and the surrounding area, possibly Burlington, N.C., circa 1930-1940
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Addition of November 1994 (Acc. 94169), 1948-1949, 1958.
2 items.
Volume V-4240/S-33
"A History of the Policy of Diversification of Burlington Industries, Inc., 1923-1957," David C. D. Rogers (thesis, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, 1958)
Volume V-4240/S-34
"Anglo-American Council on Productivity Activities, 1948-1949" (scrapbook)
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Addition of July 1995 (Acc. 95082), undated.
2 items.
Image P-4240/623-624
Unidentified group of men sitting around swimming pool
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Addition of May 1997 (Acc. 97070), 1872, 1874, 1908-1910.
6 items.
Four letters written to James Spencer Love by noted poet, e. e. cummings, dated 17 July 1908, 23 July 1908, 14 July 1909, and 16 August 1910. All four letters were written to Love from cummings's boyhood home of Joy Farm, Silver Lake, N.H. The letter of 17 July 1908 contains several ink drawings by cummings, including a self-portrait. The letter of 23 July 1908 is addressed to several family members--James Spencer, his mother Julia Spencer Love, and his sister Cornelia. All are in verse with ink drawings of an elephant and deer. The letter of 14 July 1909 contains an acrostic on "James Spencer Love" with several drawings, including a small picture of cummings's study. The 16 August 1910 letter sends greetings and closes with a humorous self-portrait. Also included are two sketch books by Julia Spencer (Love), mother of James Spencer Love and daughter of Cornelia Phillips Spencer. The June 1872 book was created for Julia Spencer's uncle (and Cornelia Phillips Spencer's brother), Samuel Field Phillips. The second book is dated 1874.
Folder 689
Four letters to James Spencer Love from e. e. cummings, 17 July 1908; 23 July 1908; 14 July 1909; 16 August 1910
Image 690
Two sketch books by Julia Spencer, 1872, 1874

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