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Cotton

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Circular from Kent, Payne, and Co. regarding James W. Singleton

 Item — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS-433
Content Description

A circular sent by Kent, Payne, and Co. notifying recipients that James W. Singleton had fraudulently been presenting bills of sale and transfer of their cotton. Also included is a newspaper clipping telling the reader to allow James W. Singleton to southern trading points by "A. Lincoln"

Dates: 1865-01-05; 1865-07-27

Photograph of laborers in a cotton mill

 Digital Record
Identifier: rl00463
Dates: Digitized: undated

Photograph of laborers in a cotton warehouse

 Digital Record
Identifier: rl00467
Dates: Digitized: undated

rl00272Augustaearlyscenes_1

 Digital Record
Identifier: rl00272
Dates: Digitized: undated

rl00273Augustaearlyscenes_2

 Digital Record
Identifier: rl00273
Dates: Digitized: undated

rl00322Augustaearlyscenes_51

 Digital Record
Identifier: rl00322
Dates: Digitized: undated

S.M. Whitney papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-402
Scope and Contents Materials about S.M. Whitney Co, Inc., a cotton seller founded in Augusta, Georgia in 1868. It closed down in September of 2010. Most documents fall in the 1950-1995 date range, the company then under the management of Barry Whitney, a descendent of cotton gin inventor, Eli Whitney. There are also records from other Augusta businesses, including the Georgia Railroad and Banking Co., Cotton Exhange of Augusta, J.G. Jackson & Co, Feedright Milling Co., and Trustees of the Augusta Free...
Dates: Created: 1950-1995, 1895, 2004; Other: Majority of material found in 1950-1995