Southern States -- Economic conditions
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Board of Research Associates in American Economic History papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 88
Abstract:
Correspondence, reports, studies, minutes of meetings, circular letters, financial reports, outlines of proposed surveys, annual reports, departmental reports, and monographs relative to the established purpose of the Board, which was sponsored by the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Economics and Sociology. Included are interviews (ca. 1906-1907) with Southern farmers, professionals, government officials, and merchants on the economics of agriculture in the South. Also a...
Dates:
1902-1933
Smith-Nyman papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 456
Abstract:
Reports, case studies, and background material used in research on a group of textile mills, primarily in the Southern United States, which had introduced the "textile stretch-out" or extended "labor system." Some of this research was sponsored by the Institute of Human Relations and was undertaken jointly with Richmond Carter Nyman.
Dates:
1929-1953, bulk 1929-1939
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Smith-Nyman papers
Eli Whitney papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 554
Abstract:
The papers consist of correspondence and business papers relating to Eli Whitney's interests in developing the cotton gin and the manufacture of firearms employing a system of interchangeable parts. The papers include land records relating to the acquisition of property for the mill site, patents on inventions, account books and other financial records, and contracts and drawings concerning firearms production. Also included in the papers are records of Eli Whitney's estate, papers of Eli...
Dates:
1716-1959, bulk 1785-1881
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Eli Whitney papers