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[Identification of item], in the Harper Family Account Books, #2908, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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

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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, May 2009

Updated by: Laura Hart, December 2021

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.

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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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• Account books.
• Barter--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Caldwell County (N.C.)--Commerce--History--19th century.
• Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad Company.
• Harper family.
• Harper, G. W. F. (George Washington Finley), 1834-1921.
• Harper, James Clarence, 1819-1890.
• Herb industry--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Lenoir (N.C.)--Commerce--History--19th century.
• Merchants--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Railroads--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Waugh and Harper (Lenoir, N.C.)

• George Washington Finley Harper Papers (#313); Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The Harper Family of Caldwell County, N.C., owned a general merchandise business in Lenoir, N.C., operating at times under the name Waugh and Harper. Family members involved in the business included James Clarence Harper, George Washington Finley Harper, and a number of partners.

The collection includes extensive daybook and ledger accounts of Waugh and Harper and other records of scattered dates relating to this business, including invoices, inventories, shipping and hauling accounts, produce orders, barter accounts for such items as wild herbs, roots, bark, and sheepskins, and letterpress copies of business letters; and a cash book of the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad Company, 1874-1882.

Oversize volumes (SV-2908/2,4,13,16, 20,25,27,30,35,36,39,41,43,48,52,53).