Records, 1942-1967.

ArchivalResource

Poliakoff's Department Store (Abbeville, S.C.). Records, 1942-1967.

Records, 1942-1967.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55477030

Specimen order and correspondence files, with letters, catalogs, circulars, inventories, and miscellaneous business records; also includes 1943 employees' tax ledger. South Carolina manufacturers and businesses represented include: Abbeville Broadcasting Co. (WABV), (Abbeville); Dixie Textile Co. (Belton); Columbia Garment Mills (Columbia); Southern Handkerchief Manufacturing Co., Stone Manufacturing Co., Maxon Shirt Corp., and Economy Textiles, Inc. (Greenville); Pet Milk Co. and Greenwood Typewriter Exchange (Greenwood); Cotton City Wash Frocks, Inc. (Hartsville); Norris Manufacturing Co. (Taylors); Kenneth Cotton Mills (Walhalla); The Globe [a dry goods store], (Westminster); and Indian Head Mills (Whitney). Personal papers relate to Myer Poliakoff's involvement with Alpha Theta chapter of Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity, University of South Carolina, 1942; his appointment as an auxiliary fireman by Abbeville County Council for National Defense, 1942; contribution to the General Israel Orphans' Home for Girls in Jerusalem, 1942; and letters from his uncle George M. Rhode, of Southern Textile Co. (Valdosta, Ga.). Others items document conditions on the home front during World War II; topics include rationing, price regulation, and retail ceiling price lists.

1.25 linear ft. (1 carton)

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