Records, 1869-1937.

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Records, 1869-1937.

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Business records (chiefly bills and invoices, as well as correspondence, bank statements, fire insurance papers, freight and lading bills, cancelled checks, receipts, and oversize payroll rosters) including correspondence of A.H. Twichell (1841-1916), treasurer, and J. Choice Evins (1869-1945), president; letters, 1900-1932, from the National Association of Manufacturers and the Cotton Manufacturers' Association of South Carolina; and correspondence, 1918, with U.S. War Department, and U.S. Treasury Department, concering company difficulties during World War I. Correspondence, 1927, with the Cotton Manufacturers' Associatation of South Carolina over industry's concern about the state sales tax bill; correspondence, 1930-1932, from the Farmers' and Taxpayers' League soliciting support for tax reform. Also contains company bank statements, fire insurance papers, bills, freight and lading bills, cancelled checks, receipts, and coupon books for mill store.

6 boxes (7.5 linear ft.)8 folders ; 62 x 46 cm.

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Twichell, A. H., 1841-1916.

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Converse, Dexter Edgar, 1828-1899.

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National Association of Manufacturers (U.S.)

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The National Association of Manufacturers (N.A.M.) was organized in January 1895 as a political lobbying organization representing the interests of America's manufacturers who wanted to maintain a high protective tariff. By the beginning of the twentieth century, N.A.M. sought to curtail the power of organized labor and maintain the open shop. During the New Deal period and World War II, N.A.M. became a significant force in the Republican coalition seeking to decrease the growing role of the sta...

Clifton Manufacturing Company (Spartanburg County, S.C.)

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Cotton textile factory, founded 1880 by Dexter Edgar Converse and his South Carolina business associates with some northern financial support; located at Clifton (Spartanburg County, S.C.), the business began production in 1881; by 1890, a second mill, Clifton #2, had opened; Clifton #3 (or Converse) began operations in 1896 and at its closing in 1971 was the last of the three mills still in operation. There were only four presidents in the company's history: Dexter Converse (1880-1...

Evins, J. Choice, 1869-1945.

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Cotton Manufacturers' Association of South Carolina.

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Farmers' and Taxpayers' League.

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