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Restrictions to Use

RESTRICTED: Materials, 1985-1996, and items that include information from those dates are closed until January 2027.

Copyright Notice

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

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Rose's Stores, Inc., Records #5097, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Provenance

Received from Variety Wholesalers, Inc. of Henderson, N.C., in August 2002 (Acc. 99265).

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

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• Department stores--North Carolina.
• Discount houses (Retail trade)--North Carolina.
• Henderson (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Merchants--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• North Carolina--Commerce--History--20th century.
• Rose's Stores, Inc.
• Stores, Retail--North Carolina.

Rose's Stores, Inc., owned by Variety Wholesalers, Inc., of Henderson, N.C., is a southeastern chain of discount retail stores that began in 1915 with the founding of the first store by Paul H. Rose in Henderson, N.C. Rose's Stores were most common in North Carolina and South Carolina, but, at various times, the company had stores in Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Maryland, Mississippi, Louisiana, and West Virginia.

The collection includes the minutes of corporate committees, corporate documents, tax documents, balance sheets, rentbooks, and photographs of Rose's Stores, Inc., discount retail stores, with headquaters in Henderson, N.C.

The minutes are from meetings of various corporate committees, including the profit sharing trust advisory committee, the auditing committee, the directors' and stockholders' meetings, the executive committee, and the proxy committee. There are also articles and certificates of incorporation; bylaws of the Rose Trucking Co., Inc.; a brief history of the company; and copies of the company newsletter.

Also included are tax documents, balance sheets, and rent books. The tax documents, 1919-1945, include income tax returns, capital stock returns, franchise returns, list of depreciations taken on fixtures, and claims made under the Agricultual Adjustment Act. The balance sheets, which record sales and expenses, run continuously from 1921 to 1925. There is also a bound volume of monthly financial reports from stores 27 through 53 for 1935. The earliest rent books appear to have been created in the early 1960s, but they contain a financial and real estate history of each store that extends back to its establishment.

Photographs are of various Rose's Stores and employees. There is also a slide show from 1979 with an audiotaped lecture on the process of loss control auditing.

Note that materials dated after 1985 are closed to research and have been moved out of the normal run of materials.