Bernard Cone Photograph Albums

Bernard Milton Cone (1874-1956) was born in Baltimore as one of the youngest of Herman and Helen Cone's thirteen children. His elder brothers, Moses (1857-1908) and Ceasar (1859-1917), built Proximity Cotton Mills in Greensboro in 1895, and later launched Revolution Mill, White Oak Mill, and Proximity Print Works, creating one of the largest textile mill companies in the South. Educated at Johns Hopkins University and Columbia Law School, Bernard Cone worked as a lawyer in New York for seven years before settling in Greensboro in 1904. Over the next 45 years, he held various positions in the family's textile empire, including that of president of Proximity Manufacturing Company from 1917 to 1938. Cone was a skilled amateur photographer, and his photos provide a rich picture of life in Greensboro in the 1900s and 1910s. Images show: members of the Cone family and their mansions on Summit Avenue, the textile mills and their employees, the mill villages and their residents, and mill-sponsored schools and recreational activities. Cone also captured street scenes in downtown Greensboro and the city's 1908 centennial celebrations. In addition, the albums include several creative self-portraits.

Details

Who's responsible?: Greensboro History Museum (Repository)
Where can I find more information?: No finding aid available.
Topics: Business
Events
North Carolina
Subject headings: Greensboro (N.C.) -- History -- 20th century
Cone Mills Corporation
Textile industry -- North Carolina -- Greensboro
Contributing Institution: Greensboro History Museum

Pages

: Example pages from Bernard Cone photo albums; Example pages showing the layout and arrangement of photographs within the Bernard Cone photo albums. One page from each scrapbook is represented.

: First Cone mansion; This photograph shows the Cone family home as seen from the front drive. What appears to be a long dirt drive flanked with shrubs leads up to the great house.

: First Cone mansion; This image of the Cone mansion taken further up the drive provides a closer view of the house.

: First Cone mansion; A view of the Cone mansion from the rear showing some of the garden landscape.

: First Cone mansion; This image of the back of Cone mansion provides a view of the lawn and garden landscape.

: First Cone mansion; This photograph shows the Cone family home as seen from the side of the property looking towards the covered porch.

: First Cone mansion; This photograph shows the Cone family home as seen from the side of the property looking towards the covered porch.

: First Cone mansion; This image of the Cone mansion taken from the back lawn shows the trees and shrubbery in bloom.

: Cone property; A view of the drive and landscape on the Cone mansion property.

: First Cone mansion; This view of the Cone mansion shows the dirt drives and paths along with some of the landscaping.

: First Cone mansion; This photograph taken from the lawn shows the landscaping of the Cone property off Summit Avenue.

: First Cone mansion; This photograph taken from the lawn shows the landscaping of the Cone property off Summit Avenue.

: First Cone mansion; This image shows the dirt drive curving around the Cone mansion.

: First Cone mansion; This photograph was taken from the side of the Cone mansion showing the path along the porch and the landscaping.

: Proximity Mill; This image shows one of the Cone mills.

: Cone greenhouse; A view of the greenhouse on the property of the Cone mansion.

: First Cone mansion; This image shows a window on the side of the Cone mansion with flowering bushes in the foreground.

: Three men at the greenhouse; This photograph shows three gentlemen sitting on the greenhouse ledge on the Cone property. The man on the far right has been identified as M.D. Long.

: Man standing with two horses; An unidentified man stands beside two horses on the Cone property.

: Man sitting astride a horse; An unidentified man sits astride a horse on the Cone property.

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