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[Identification of item], in the Lanier Branson Recollections, #3996-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, March 2011

This collection was processed with support from the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1993.

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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• Branson, Lanier, b. 1889.
• Consolidated Textile Chain.
• Industries--Massachusetts--History--20th century.
• Industries--South Carolina--Graniteville--History--20th century.
• Textile industry--New England--History--20th century.
• Textile industry--Southern States--History--20th century.
• West Point Manufacturing Company.

Lanier Branson was a textile manufacturer of West Point, Ga.

The collection contains brief recollections of Branson, commenting on the textile industry's migration from New England to the South. The story includes Branson's experiences in Lowell and Lawrenceville, Mass., in 1912, and his firsthand knowledge of the West Point Manufacturing Company's Graniteville, S.C., mills, of which he was president, and the CTX, Consolidated Textile Chain, with which he was associated.