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Robert Bruce Cooke

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By Robert Bruce Cooke

Robert Bruce Cooke papers, 1926-1972.

Cooke, Robert Bruce, 1902-1973 · 1926

Papers of Robert Bruce Cooke (1902-1973) covering 1926 to 1972, 420 items across three linear feet in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. Topics include the textile industry in North Carolina and the South, mill workers and automation, firms including Erwin Cotton Mills and Virginia Cotton Mills, war work during the Second World War, and the Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley.

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