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[Identification of item], in the Sellers Manufacturing Company Records #04922, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from Ben E. Jordan, Jr., of Saxapahaw, N.C., in April 1998 (Acc. 98069), and in December 2017 (Acc. 103301).

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Updated because of addition by Nancy Kaiser in January 2018.

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• North Carolina--Economic conditions--20th century.
• Saxapahaw (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Sellers, Charles V.
• Textile industry--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Jordan Spinning Company.
• Jordan, B. Everett (Benjamin Everett)
• National Processing Company.
• Royal Cotton Mill (Wake Forest, N.C.)
• Sellers Dyeing Company.
• Sellers Manufacturing Company.

• Southern Oral History Program (#4007), Series C. Notable North Carolinians, Interviews C-101 through C-242 about B. Everett Jordan.

Located in Saxapahaw, N.C., Sellers Manufacturing Company was incorporated in 1927 to produce fine combed cotton yarns to supply the hosiery industry in Alamance County. Charles V. Sellers was the company's president, serving from 1927 until his death in 1941. B. Everett Jordan was the company's treasurer and general manager.

Starting out with fewer than 10,000 spindles, the company expanded in size and in range of products, until at its peak it employed 1,000 people and operated approximately 75,000 spindles. In 1930, the company began producing mercerized combed yarns and, in 1931-1932, established one of the South's first silk-throwing plants for making raw Japanese silk into thread for the hosiery industry. By 1961, Sellers produced a wide range of knitting and weaving yarns-combed, carded, nylon blends, dyed and natural, mercerized, and stretch.

In 1939, Sellers Manufacturing Company acquired Sapona Cotton Mill in Randolph County, which was then reorganized as an affiliate and named Jordan Spinning Company. In 1945, Sellers acquired Royal Cotton Mill in Wake Forest, N.C., a yarn spinning mill that produced a coarser range of yarns than the Sellers products. That same year, Sellers also acquired National Processing Company, a mercerizer. In 1951, Sellers established a dyeing operation, the Sellers Dyeing Company. The company further expanded its product range by spinning and blending nylon and other synthetics with cotton.

Records, 1927-1994, of the Sellers Manufacturing Company of Saxapahaw, N.C., and related companies, Royal Cotton Mill, Sellers Dyeing Company, Jordan Spinning Company, and National Processing Company. Included are minutes of stockholders meetings and directors meetings, tax returns, inventories, accounts, a supervisors' policy and procedures manual, and other items.

Items separated include: SV-4922/1-4.