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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the E. B. Draughon papers #4743, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from The Elms through Michael O'Brien of Whitakers, N.C., in October 1994 (Acc. 94156) and February 1995 (Acc. 95030).

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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.
• Agriculture--Economic aspects--North Carolina.
• Draughon, E. B.
• Dry-goods--North Carolina.
• Dry-goods--Prices--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Edgecombe County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Farm life--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Farms--North Carolina.
• Livestock--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Merchants--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Peanuts--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Whitakers (N.C.)--Economic conditions.

Bills and receipts, 1945-1946 and 1952, and farm journals and ledgers, 1936-1983, of E. B. Draughon relating to livestock, peanut and other commodity growing, and miscellaneous farming operations at The Elms, Whitakers, Edgecombe County, N.C. There are also ledgers and other books of account from stores in Whitakers, 1919-1947. Bills and receipts include materials relating to the purchase of farm equipment and other items and to the use of a community grain elevator. There are also copies of hail adjustment proof of loss forms. Whitakers farm volumes include two journals, 1936-1937 and 1938- 1940, with brief entries documenting farm activities, and 12 ledgers listing incomes and expenses, 1940-1983. Store volumes relate to establishments in Whitakers and include two cash books, 1919-1927, of the dry-goods firm of G. W. Harrison; two account books, 1924-1941 and 1943, of J. White & Son, dry-goods; and five miscellaneous account, ledger, and inventory books, 1919-1947.

• Oversize volumes (SV-4743/1-6; SV-4743/8-13)