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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 Walter James Forbes Liddell Papers, #904, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Dr. Anna Forbes Liddell of Charlotte, N.C., August 1944.

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.

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, April 2009

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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• Cotton machinery industry--North Carolina--History.
• Cotton machinery--Design and construction--History.
• Industries--North Carolina--Charlotte--History.
• Industries--North Carolina--History.
• Liddell Engine Company (Charlotte, N.C.)
• Liddell and Co. (Charlotte, N.C.)
• Liddell, Walter James Forbes, d. 1889.
• Liddell, Walter S.
• Sawmills--Equipment and supplies--History--19th century.

Walter James Forbes Liddell (died 1889) was the owner and manager of the Liddell Engine Company (later Liddell and Co.), a manufacturing firm of Charlotte, N.C. His son, Walter S. Liddell, managed the firm after his father's death.

The collection is records, chiefly 1880s-1890s, of a manufacturing firm of Charlotte, N.C., owned and managed by Walter James Forbes Liddell and later by Liddell's son, Walter S. Liddell. Included are business correspondence, accounts, receipts, promissory notes, deeds, blueprints, and printed patents of the Liddell Engine Company and its successor Liddell and Co., manufacturers of engines, cotton presses, and circular saw mills. There is no Civil War material. Volumes are private accounts of W. J. F. Liddell, 1866-1874, and miscellaneous accounts, 1884-1888.