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for "Furniture industry and trade"
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14797
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Furniture manufacturing was a diverse industry throughout North Carolina history. Henry Payne offered some of the earliest cabinetry work in Caldwell County. The first factory opened in 1880 at High Point, ten years later five more, and by 1900 44 furniture factories were operated. At the time of this article, there were 101 established factories located in High Point, Lenoir, Thomasville, Statesville, Hickory, Marion, Mt. Airy, Lexington, Mebane, and North Wilkesboro were the centers of furniture production.
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17779
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In the 1900s, North Carolina took the massive forests of the state and built a furniture industry unparalleled by any other entity in the United States. Although times and practices have changes, North Carolina still proclaims: \"Ours is better.\"
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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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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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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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22567
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The New Buck Corporation, a stove manufacturing company in Spruce Pine, North Carolina has grown since opening in 1971. Over time the company has had to diversify what it produces based on market demands.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 35 Issue 3, March 2015,
p5, por
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24212
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The world's largest furniture marketplace happens twice a year in High Point. The furniture shows take place in High Point because that was once where the industry was centered. Now, the High Point market's future is in jeopardy and Las Vegas thinks it has the answer: building a new home for the market and leveraging its advantages in entertainment accommodations, restaurants, and glamour.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 26 Issue 6, June 2006,
p32-41, il
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24221
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Century Furniture in Hickory has been operating since 1947, making custom pieces for a hefty price, even though the furniture industry in North Carolina has decreased since 1993.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 24 Issue 5, May 2004,
p34-39, il
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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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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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24607
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The South Charlotte furniture business, Heritage Handcrafted, is owned by James Broyhill II, descendant of J.E. Broyhill who operated Broyhill Furniture Factories. This article includes the history of Broyhill Furniture Factories as well as how James came to opening Heritage Handcrafted.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 82 Issue 4, September 2014,
p186-188, 190, 192, 194, 196, il, por
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27569
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For some time scholars believed that the use of white pine in early furniture indicated northern manufacture, since white pine does not grow along the southern coast. However, many pieces of southern manufacture display white pine as a secondary wood. North Carolina merchants often used white pine because it was easier and cheaper to import lumber by water than to face the difficulties of cutting local trees.
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Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts
(NoCar N 6520 .J67), Vol. 3 Issue 1, May 1977,
p11-26, il, bibl, f
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27585
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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the area that is now Shenandoah County, Virginia served as a principal migration route from Philadelphia to North Carolina. Trade centers and developers in the region brought together a variety of cultures. This diversity created one of the most interesting American regional styles in decoration and craftsmanship.
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Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts
(NoCar N 6520 .J67), Vol. 5 Issue 2, Nov 1979,
p6-35, il, map, bibl, f
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27637
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Furniture made by the Crow group exhibits a diversity of style and construction not often encountered in the production of a single rural shop. The furniture’s craftsmanship is likely influenced by shifts in technology and styles transmitted from the Piedmont and Tidewater regions of northeastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia during the late eighteenth century.
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Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts
(NoCar N 6520 .J67), Vol. 9 Issue 2, Nov 1983,
p21-42, il, map, bibl, f
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