Inventory of the Gennett Lumber Company Records, 1832-1954, bulk 1920-1945

Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University

Gennett Lumber Company (Asheville, N.C.).

Gennett Lumber Company Records, 1832-1954, bulk 1920-1945

Material in English

14.5 Linear Feet

Approximately 16,000 Items

Lumber company founded in 1902 by Andrew and Nat Gennett, headquartered in Georgia and South Carolina, later in Asheville, N.C.

Correspondence, contracts, legal documents, and other records of the Gennett Lumber Co., mostly for the years 1920 to 1945. The two Gennett brothers Nat and Andrew, founders of the company, were part of the effort to establish the South's national forest system. Includes a microfilm copy of the autobiography of Andrew Gennett IV, chiefly concerned with personal experiences and family history. Subjects covered by materials in the collection include Civil War reminiscences, life at Nashville and at Tulane and Vanderbilt universities shortly after the war, the lumber business after 1890, economic conditions in the U.S. after 1900, forest conservation, U.S. politics and foreign relations during World War I, and travel in Europe after the war.

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[Identification of item], Gennett Lumber Company Records, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.

The Gennett Lumber Company Records were received by the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library as a gift in April 1957.

Processed by RBMSCL staff, June 1957

Encoded by Robert Carlson, April 2009

Accession 56-375 is described in this finding aid.

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Correspondence, contracts, legal documents, and other records of the Gennett Lumber Company, Asheville, N.C., mostly for the years 1920 to 1945. Includes a microfilm copy of the autobiography of Andrew Gennett IV, chiefly concerned with personal experiences and family history. Subjects discussed in the autobiography include Civil War reminiscences, life at Nashville and at Tulane and Vanderbilt universities shortly after the war, the lumber business after 1890, economic conditions in the U.S. after 1900, forest conservation, U.S. politics and foreign relations during World War I, and travel in Europe after the war. Arranged in one series, in original order as received.

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