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for "Furniture industry and trade"
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27879
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A study by the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina examined the business records of Virginia cabinetmaker Sampson Diuguid. Analysis of Diuguid’s Ledger D account book reveals the various furniture forms he made in the early nineteenth century, and provides further knowledge of the cabinetmaking trade throughout the eastern region.
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Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts
(NoCar N 6520 .J67), Vol. 30 Issue 2, Winter 2004,
p1-48, il, por, map, bibl, f
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27880
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A study by the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina examined the furniture trade between America and Jamaica during the eighteenth century. The movement of cabinetmakers such as John Fisher, coupled with the exportation of Windsor chairs to Jamaica from the eastern seaboard, reveals not only the trade of goods, but also the influence of skills, style, and culture.
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Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts
(NoCar N 6520 .J67), Vol. 30 Issue 2, Winter 2004,
p49-73, il, map, bibl, f
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21602
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An examination of the life and work of African American master cabinetmaker Thomas Day and his brother John Day, who were free, black craftsmen in the height of the antebellum period. Both skilled in furniture making, learned from their father, they established a business in Milton. John became a Baptist minister and relocated to Liberia, which he helped found. Thomas Day's furniture skills and the fact that he owned both land and slaves gave him a status that was unusual for free blacks in antebellum North Carolina. Thomas and his work reached a sort of mythic reputation in the state in the early 20th century and was glorified by whites who felt comfortable with his middle-class ethics and establishment loyalties.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 78 Issue 1, Jan 2001,
p1-31, por, f
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21637
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This article discusses the career of African American furniture maker Thomas Day, a free black craftsman who lived in northern North Carolina, near his birthplace in Virginia. Legend and myth have grown around Day's life and accomplishments, but his access to and business with white customers and his ability to prosper in that world can be attributed mainly to his recognized talent as a craftsman, even if such recognition of a black man was extraordinary in pre-Civil War North Carolina.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 78 Issue 1, Jan 2001,
p32-66, il, por, f
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24277
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Sherrill Shaw helped run his father's company, Shaw Furniture Galleries, for 59 years until it went bankrupt as a result of turning the company over to Living.com Inc., a Texas-based company that sells furniture online.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 21 Issue 5, May 2001,
p30-42, il
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4418
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At the start of the 20th-century, three industries were gaining prominence -- tobacco, textiles, and furniture. Each made its influence felt in a different geographic location. Tobacco was the Coastal Plain's big moneymaker. Two hundred textile plants spurred growth in the Piedmont, encouraging farmers to grow more cotton. Furniture factories developed in the foothills, near their source of raw materials.
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24302
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This excerpt from 'Closing' details the closing of White Furniture Co., a century old furniture manufacturer in Mebane, North Carolina. The company had been sold to a conglomerate in 1993 and was then shut down, causing 203 people to lose their jobs. In the 1990s, this was a common situation, when Americans lost their jobs to layoffs, outsourcing, downsizing, buyouts, and off-shoring.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 18 Issue 9, September 1998,
p24-31, il
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2140
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According to American Furniture Manufacturers Association in High Point, the industry shipped $19.8 billion in furniture in 1994. New home sales, remodeling, and home refinancing money will foster the demand for furniture in 1995.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 15 Issue 2, Feb 1995,
p67-69, il
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2235
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North Carolina furniture makers are increasingly marketing their products to overseas markets. State furniture exports are rising as the industry targets markets in such regions as Asia and the Pacific, Latin America, and the Middle East.
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2236
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Alex Bernhardt, president of Bernhardt Furniture headquartered in Lenoir, is guiding his family's 106 year-old furniture company into the mostly untapped but fertile international marketplace.
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21904
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This article provides additional information to the article 'American Vernacular Furniture and the North Carolina Backcountry,' which appeared in the November 1994 issue of the Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts. After the original article's publication, several additional pieces of furniture relating to the original set of furniture discussed.
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Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts
(NoCar N 6520 .J67), Vol. 21 Issue 1, Summer 1995,
p89-93, il
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21893
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This article examines the origins of a particular walnut chest-on-frame, belonging to the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, from the Piedmont of North Carolina as well as the study of Carolina backcountry furniture.
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Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts
(NoCar N 6520 .J67), Vol. 20 Issue 2, Nov 1994,
p1-37, il
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1063
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Brent Kincaid worked his way to the top of Broyhill Furniture Industries. The president and CEO is now preparing his company to face the global market, which is the future of the industry.
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1277
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The furniture industry in North Carolina aims to sell sofas and bedroom suites as other industries sell their products: by using marketing techniques to promote brand awareness.
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27722
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Petersburg, Virginia was an important cultural and economic center during the middle of the eighteenth century, supporting an extensive furniture-making community. Petersburg’s cultural history contributed to its unique regional furniture style, and emergence as a significant marketplace for southern Virginia and northern North Carolina.
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Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts
(NoCar N 6520 .J67), Vol. 18 Issue 1, May 1992,
p1-113, il, map, bibl, f
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