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[Identification of item], in the Pickett Cotton Mill Records #4488, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from the High Point (North Carolina) Historical Society in July 1987. Received by the High Point Historical Society in December 1985 from Pickett Cotton Mills, Inc., through J. H. Mellichampe.

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• Cotton textile industry--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Duke, James Buchanan, 1856-1925.
• Industries--North Carolina--High Point--History--20th century.
• Pickett Cotton Mill (High Point, N.C.)
• Pickett, F. M.
• Reynolds, R. J. (Richard Joshua), 1859-1918.
• Walker, Robert H.

Pickett Cotton Mill was organized in High Point, N.C., in 1910. F. M. Pickett, majority stockholder and long-time High Point tobacco manufacturer, served as secretary-treasurer. Robert H. Walker served as president and auditor of the company. Along with Pickett, investors included J. B. Duke and R. J. Reynolds. The mill produced broad print cloths and other cotton goods.

Records documenting the day-to-day activities of the business offices of the mill. Both expenses (for supplies, wages, machinery, insurance, etc.) and products are detailed in the company's routine correspondence, contracts, account ledgers, invoices, and other office files. A few volumes appear that predate the establishment of Pickett Cotton Mill; these probably relate to an earlier business of Pickett's, possibly involving tobacco.

• V-4488/S-1,S-6,S-7,S-18 - S-42