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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 John V. Stribling Papers, #699, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received prior to 1940.

Location of Originals

Location of originals is unknown.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

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.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, June 2010

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Southern States--Economic conditions.
• Spinning machinery--History--19th century.
• Stribling, John V., fl. 1869-1900.
• Textile industry--Southern States--History--19th century.
• Textile machinery--Southern States--History--19th century.
• Whitfield, F. Eugene, fl. 1850-1880.

John V. Stribling (fl. 1869-1900) was a resident of Westminster, S.C.

The collection includes typed transcriptions of correspondence of John V. Stribling concerning the functioning and sale of the Clement attachment for spinning cotton yarn and the prospects for Southern prosperity in the textile industry. Correspondence is chiefly with Colonel F. Eugene Whitfield, Corinth, Miss., distributor of the attachment, 1878-1880.