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[Identification of item], in the Seligman and Company Records #4562, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from Sarah A. Owens of Manteo, North Carolina, in June 1990 and February 1991.

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• Account books.
• Clear Creek Coal Company (Tamaqua, Pa.)
• Coal trade--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Lumber trade--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Pasquotank County (N.C.)--History.
• Seligman and Company (Tamaqua, Pa.)
• Timber--North Carolina--History--20th century.

Seligman and Company was a timber firm apparently based in Tamaqua, Penn., which was active in the lumber industry in Pasquotank County, N.C. The company appears to have been affiliated with the Clear Creek Coal Company, Inc., which also operated out of Tamaqua.

Seligman and Company was a timber firm apparently based in Tamaqua, Pennsylvania. The four volumes in this collection contain records of Seligman and Company's lumbering activities, 1907-1930, in Pasquotank County, North Carolina. Seligman and Company appears to have been affiliated with the Clear Creek Coal Company, Inc., which also operated out of Tamaqua. Some of the entries in Volume 4 relate to this company. It is not clear whether or not Clear Creek Coal Company, Inc., also operated in Pasquotank County.

• Volume S-1
• Volume S-3