Carolina Mills Collection (Mss. Gr. 104)

Series 1. Subject Files
This series contains records accumulated during the administration of business and financial activities. Topics focus mainly on financial concerns such as bank accounts, taxes, and stocks and bonds. Other topics include automobile cloth contracts, Caro Cloth Company, business statistics, and Peace Dale Manufacturing Company.

Types of records include account sales sheets, annual reports, correspondence, check registers, cloth samples, order books and bank statements. Of specific interest are the workers time sheets which date from 1914-1916 and record the names of workers, hours, and sometimes the pay.

The records in this series are arranged alphabetically by subject or type of record and chronologically within folders.

Series 2. Invoices and Receipts
This series contains incoming and outgoing receipts accumulated by Carolina Mills' owners to record purchases and sales. The receipts date from the ownership of Tinkham, Metcalf and Company to the last days of active mill production for the Carolina Mills Company, and are by no means a complete record of purchases and sales for that time span.

This series is first divided by type of record (incoming or outgoing) and then arranged chronologically within folders.