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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Beeson Hardware Company Records #4813, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Ed Spivey, President, Beeson Hardware and Lumber Company, High Point, N.C., May 1996 (Acc. 96072).

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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Account books--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Beeson Hardware Company.
• Beeson, Newell.
• General stores--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Hardware stores--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Hardware--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• High Point (N.C.)--Economic conditions--20th century.
• High Point (N.C.)--History.
• Ragan, Amos.
• Ragan, Robert R.

Business records of Beeson Hardware and Lumber Company of High Point, N.C., dating from 1917 to 1931. The store was founded in 1893 by Newell Beeson and purchased by Amos Ragan in 1896. Robert R. Ragan took over store management duties in 1908. The business records document store inventory from 1917 to 1931 with equipment, merchandise, and prices listed. Also present are store account ledgers for 1907 to 1922. Undated indices by customer are present for some ledgers.

• V-4813/S-1 - S-11