From the back of the Postcard:
The aerial view shows some of the city's most important areas. There is but one high building in the city, the Security National Bank Building that has eight stories, but the length and width of the business district is expanding yearly with buildings of two and three stories and industrial plants continuously are expanding their operations to keep alive the name "The Hosiery Center of the South."
From the back of the Postcard:
Burlington, the Hosiery Center of the South.
Ranks fifth in the United States in the production of hosiery, and second in the State in the number of new industrial plants and expansion. In the last 10 years the population has increased more than 60 per cent, which is four times greater than the United States average.
Visible:
Corney D. Whitesell's Shoe Shop. Born in 1873, Corney established his shoe shop in Burlington in 1896. This picture shows the first electric shoe repair machine in this area sometime after 1908. The man on the left is Mr. Whitesell's assistant Mr. Monroe Sullivan. (photo ID from "In Years Gone By" columns, Burlington Times-News 01/06/1955)
Original Covington Hardware Building was destroyed by fire on 12/29/1917. Photo estimated from 1920-1921.
Standard Realty & Security Company: Standard Lumber Company and Beverly Hills
The Standard Building on North Main Street, was fully occupied by industrial and wholesale concerns; the plant of the Standard Lumber company and homes in Beverly Hills, a development by D. R. and C. C. Fonville.
Visible is the:
Can see the same building that is now the Historic Depot
This brochure is publicity about living, working, shopping, attending school, worshiping, farming, and engaging in recreational activities in Burlington, North Carolina around the year 1957. It also contains several historical pictures from the early 1900s.
This 1939 brochure describes the commercial, educational, industrial, agricultural, religious, civic, and recreational resources of Burlington, North Carolina. It contains statistics on the community and black and white photographs of the central business district.
This brochure describes economic conditions in Burlington, North Carolina around 1940. It was used as industrial recruiting publicity by the Chamber of Commerce.
This is a summary of industrial conditions in Burlington, NC around the year 1952 with black and white photographs of some leading local industrial facilities.