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Photographer: South Carolina Postcards, Vol. IX: Anderson County, by Howard Woody
Taken: 1908
Caption: Orr Cotton Mills Store
Additional Description: Each mill built commissary-type stores for their operatives, who were usually poor families that came to the mills seeking a steady source of income and needing low cost housing and credit. The factory would assign the family a cottage and let them obtain food, clothing, and medicines on credit and subtract those expenses from the salaries of the fathers, mothers, and children at the end of each two-week payroll. The store stocked every necessity, including coffins.
Submitted: September 22, 2010, by Brian Scott of Anderson, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p129128
File Size: 0.074 Megabytes

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