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Collection Number: 04562

Collection Title: Seligman and Company Records, 1907-1930

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Size 1.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 3 items)
Abstract 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. Records, 1907-1930, of the Seligman and Company timbering operations in Pasquotank County, N.C., as documented in three account books that show expenses and receipts. The third volume also includes records relating to the Clear Creek Coal Company.
Creator Seligman and Company (Tamaqua, Pa.)
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
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 Seligman and Company Records #4562, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Sarah A. Owens of Manteo, North Carolina, in June 1990 and February 1991.
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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Processed by: Roslyn Holdzkom, September 1990 and February 1991

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

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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.

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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.

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